BURALL v. JOHNSTON

No. 22785-S.

53 F.Supp. 126 (1943)

BURALL v. JOHNSTON, Warden.

District Court, N. D. California, S. D.

December 15, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. W. Ehrlich, of San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner.

Frank J. Hennessy, U. S. Atty., and A. J. Zirpoli, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal., for respondent.


ST. SURE, District Judge.

Petitioner made personal application to Hon. M. J. Roche, one of the judges of this court, for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that he is unlawfully restrained of his liberty by the warden of Alcatraz prison. He states that he is held under commitment from the United States District Court of the Southern District of Illinois, and that his commitment and sentence were void for lack of jurisdiction. Briefly, he charges that his constitutional...

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