EVANS v. RIVES

No. 8134.

126 F.2d 633 (1942)

EVANS v. RIVES.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 21, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Isadore H. Halpern, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Fred J. Icenhower, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Mr. Richmond B. Keech, Corporation Counsel, and Mr. Vernon E. West, Assistant Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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


STEPHENS, Associate Justice:

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia discharging a writ of habeas corpus and dismissing the petition on which the writ was issued and remanding the petitioner to the custody of the Superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail. The petitioner is serving a sentence of one year under a conviction in the Juvenile Court of the crime of refusing to provide for the support...

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