UNITED STATES v. CUMMINGS

No. 82.

14 F.Supp. 647 (1936)

UNITED STATES ex rel. STEINBERG v. CUMMINGS, Atty. Gen., et al.

District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

April 18, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Heller, of New York City, and Irving L. Epstein, of Scranton, Pa., for relator.

Frederick V. Follmer, U. S. Atty., of Scranton, Pa., and Herman F. Reich, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Sunbury, Pa., for respondents.


JOHNSON, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Samuel Steinberg, an inmate of the United States Northeastern Penitentiary, at Lewisburg, Pa.

The petitioner was sentenced on May 17, 1932, by the District Court for the Southern District of New York to a term of five years in a United States penitentiary. The sentence provided that execution thereof was to begin on May 17, 1932, but that petitioner was to remain at Detention Headquarters...

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