PELLEY v. BOTKIN

No. 8925.

152 F.2d 12 (1945)

PELLEY v. BOTKIN.

United States Court of Appeals. District of Columbia.

Decided November 13, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William J. Powers, of Chicago, Ill., of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Illinois, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom Mr. James J. Laughlin, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Charles B. Murray, of Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Edward M. Curran, United States Attorney, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee. Messrs. O. John Rogge and Joseph W. Burns, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, and Philip R. Miller, Special Attorney, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., entered appearances for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, WILBUR K. MILLER and PRETTYMAN, Associate Justices.


WILBUR K. MILLER, Justice.

William Dudley Pelley appeals from an order of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

The appellant was convicted in the District Court for the Southern District of Indiana of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, 50 U.S.C.A. Secs. 33, 34, and on August 12, 1942, was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. On his appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals...

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