CURTIS v. RIVES

No. 7872.

123 F.2d 936 (1941)

CURTIS v. RIVES, Superintendent of Washington Asylum and Jail.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided December 1, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Y. E. Allen, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Bernard Margolius, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Washington, D. C., (Edward M. Curran, U. S. Atty., and Charles B. Murray, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and STEPHENS and RUTLEDGE, Associate Justices.


STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a final order of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia discharging a writ of habeas corpus, dismissing the petition upon which the writ was issued, and remanding the appellant, James Curtis, petitioner below, to the custody of the appellee Thomas M. Rives.

By an indictment returned in the District of Columbia on March 18, 1937, the appellant was charged with the crime of robbery...

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