IN RE WAIDMAN

Nos. 1200, 1201.

42 F.2d 239 (1930)

In re WAIDMAN. In re BERGEVIN.

District Court, D. Maine, S. D.

July 11, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold J. Smith, of Boston, Mass., for petitioners.

William B. Nulty, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Portland, Me., for the United States.


PETERS, District Judge.

Two petitions for writs of habeas corpus involving the same circumstances, raising the same points and heard together.

The petitioners are seamen in the Navy now confined at the naval prison at Kittery on the sentence of a court-martial after conviction of "scandalous conduct tending to the destruction of good morals," an offense for which the court is authorized by the Articles for the Government of the Navy, article 8, to inflict...

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