HANCOCK v. STOUT

No. Civ. A. 454.

55 F.Supp. 330 (1944)

HANCOCK v. STOUT, Colonel.

District Court, W. D. South Carolina, Greenville Division.

May 26, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wyche, Burgess & Wofford, of Greenville, S. C., for petitioner.

Oscar H. Doyle, U. S. Atty., and W. M. Walters, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Greenville, S. C., Edward B. Schlant, of Atlanta, Ga., Colonel, J. A. G. D., Judge Advocate Fourth Service Command, and Reid B. Barnes, of Birmingham, Ala., Major, J. A. G. D., for respondent.


TIMMERMAN, District Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding. The petitioner, Herman C. Hancock, Jr., was at all relevant times a soldier in the United States Army holding the rank of Technical Sergeant and was subject to military law. The respondent, Oliver H. Stout, is a Colonel in the United States Army, and as such the Commanding Officer of the Greenville Army Air Base, Greenville, South Carolina, where the petitioner was stationed or held at the times hereinafter...

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