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US vs. Yu Kiao 020 Phil 307

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. YU KIAO, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 6419 | 1911-10-02

D E C I S I O N


JOHNSON, J.:

This was an action brought by the plaintiff to determine whether or not the defendant had a right to remain in the Philippine Islands. To this end the following complaint was presented against him in the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila, upon the 3d day of August, 1910.

"The undersigned represents: that he is a duly authorized official of the immigration division of the Bureau of Customs, Manila, P. I., and that he hereby accuses Yu Kiao, a Chinese laborer now in the detention station for Chinese immigrants, of violation of the law, committed as follows:

"That on or about the 1st day of...