199 F. 365 | D. Mont. | 1912
The petitioner, an alien, filed a petition herein, alleging unlawful detention for deportation on a warrant therefor issued by the acting Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The petition alleges that the findings and statements in said warrant are not based on legal evidence, and that the said warrant is illegal, in that it orders deportation “to the country whence came,” not naming it. It also alleges facts contrary to the findings. A copy of said warrant was attached to the petition, but not the evidence and report of the proceedings upon which said findings were made and warrant issued.
The writ issued. On the return day the detaining officer made return that he holds petitioner for deportation by virtue of the warrant aforesaid, that petitioner had been arrested and given a hearing on proper charges for deportation, whereat he consented to deportation, that the charge and evidence were legally sufficient, and that said (warrant thereupon issued, The defect in said warrant was not denied. The return was not traversed, but upon the hearing thereon certain carbon printed sheets were filed in or by way of evidence by the petitioner, purporting to be of that taken before the inspector who presided at the hearing after arrest.