BATES v. JOHNSTON

No. 9455.

111 F.2d 966 (1940)

BATES v. JOHNSTON, Warden.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

May 13, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. L. Bates, in pro. per., for appellant.

Frank J. Hennessy, U. S. Atty., and R. B. McMillan and A. J. Zirpoli, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before GARRECHT, HANEY, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


GARRECHT, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, confined to the United States penitentiary at Alcatraz Island, California, under a sentence of life imprisonment imposed after entry of judgment of conviction for violation of the Lindbergh Law, 47 Stat. 326, 18 U.S.C.A. § 408a, petitioned the court below for a writ of habeas corpus, and the petition was denied. From the order denying his petition, Bates appeals. The appellant contends, in his petition for the issuance...

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