In re Hatsuyo Kobayashi
In re Hatsuyo Kobayashi
Opinion of the Court
The petitioner having made a showing supplementary to her petition and to overcome the objection of his honor Judge Dole, in the opinion rendered on October 9, 1915, ante, p. 591, the writ of habeas corpus issued.
This case is one in which the court has no right to interfere with the action of the board of special inquiry as a body authorized to find facts. There was, in my opinion,
The justness of the board’s finding that the petitioner was likely to become a public charge, is not so clear, though in my opinion it is still a finding that cannot be set aside by this court.
So far as concerns the ground of deprivation of counsel, the petitioner claims that this case is distinguished from those like Low Wah Suey v. Backus, 225 U. S. 460, 470, in which the applicant had counsel at some stage of the proceedings; because in the present case it appears that the benefit of counsel was not had at all. But it seems to me that in the absence at least, as here, of any showing of request for counsel, the finding of the board of special inquiry should not be set aside now. See Bouve, Exclusion of Aliens, 291; United States v. Sing Tuck, 194 U. S. 161, 170. The complaints of want of counsel and of violation of the constitutional guaranty against self-incrimination, have both been disposed of by recent rulings of this court. In re Ko Matsumoto, post, determined Dec. 4, 1915, and see In re Ryonosuke Sakaba, ante, p. 372.
Let the writ be discharged and the petitioner .be rer manded to the custody of the respondent.
Reference
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- IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF HATSUYO KOBAYASHI FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
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