COLLINS v. JOHNSTON

No. 594.

237 U.S. 502 (1915)

COLLINS v. JOHNSTON, WARDEN OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 17, 1915.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George D. Collins pro se, submitted.

Mr. Raymond Benjamin, Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of California, with whom Mr. Robert W. Harrison, Deputy Attorney General of the State of California, and Mr. U.S. Webb, Attorney General for the State of California, were on the brief for the appellee.


MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal, taken under § 238, Jud. Code, to review a final order of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California denying appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to be addressed to appellee, as warden of the State Prison of the State of California, in whose custody appellant alleges he is held in violation...

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