UNITED STATES v. JOHNSTON

No. 23244.

58 F.Supp. 208 (1944)

UNITED STATES ex rel. BOWEN v. JOHNSTON, Warden.

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

April 20, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Hennessy, U. S. Atty., of San Francisco, Cal., for respondent James A. Johnston.


GOODMAN, District Judge.

Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 1933, by a Federal District Court in Georgia after a jury found him guilty of murder committed in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park located within the State of Georgia. By his instant petition for writ of habeas corpus he seeks release from Alcatraz Prison where he is presently confined, upon the ground that the Georgia...

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