UNITED STATES v. RAGEN

No. 8698.

150 F.2d 53 (1945)

UNITED STATES ex rel. LYONS v. RAGEN, Warden, etc., et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

June 26, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin Lyons, of Joliet, Ill., in pro. per.

George F. Barrett and William C. Wines, both of Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before EVANS, SPARKS, and MINTON, Circuit Judges.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a prisoner in the custody of the warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary under sentence of imprisonment for one year to life on conviction of burglary, appeals from an order of the District Court denying his petition for discharge on writ of habeas corpus.

The only question sought to be presented by the petition for the writ was whether the state of Illinois had authority, under the statute pertaining to parole outside the...

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