Payn v. Kelley

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• holding that a possession conviction under the Narcotic Act was not of itself a crime of “moral turpitude”
• holding that sections 19 and 20 of the Immigration Act of 1917 authorized recommendations against deportation for an alien convicted of narcotics offenses if the offense involved moral turpitude

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