Ex parte Hidekuni Iwata

This is a proceeding in.habeas corpus intended to test the validity of an order of deportation issued against the petitioner by the Secretary of Labor, dated the 12th day of November, 1914, wherein the petitioner, a member of the Japanese race and a subject of Japan, is ordered deported to the country whence he came, because of the fact that, being domiciled within the United States, he has been found connected with the management of a house of prostitution, has been found assisting, protecting, or promising to protect from arrest a prostitute, and that he has been found receiving, sharing in, or deriving benefit from the earnings of prostitutes.

The claim is made in the petition for the writ that the facts giving cause for his deportation were insufficiently alleged in the original warrant of arrest, in that there was no statement therein as to- the precise facts concerning the petitioner with respect to his being connected with a house of prostitution, nor were any of the circumstances detailed showing where or in what manner he had been found assisting, protecting, or promising to protect from arrest any prostitute or prostitutes, nor was it shown or alleged how it was claimed…