MANNING v. BIDDLE

No. 7285.

14 F.2d 518 (1926)

MANNING v. BIDDLE, Warden.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

August 7, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. W. Botts, of Mexico, Mo., for appellant.

Al. F. Williams, U. S. Atty., Alton H. Skinner, Frank H. McFarland, and John N. Free, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Topeka, Kan., for appellee.

Before SANBORN, Circuit Judge, and WOODROUGH and SCOTT, District Judges.


WOODROUGH, District Judge.

The appellant was denied a writ of habeas corpus by the district court in Kansas, and remanded to serve out a sentence of fine and imprisonment at Leavenworth for ten years imposed upon him by a district court in Missouri. The appeal is to review the order.

Appellant claims that the indictment upon which his conviction and sentence are founded was merely an attempt to charge an impossible offense, colorless and wholly void, and that...

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