HAWK v. OLSON

Civil Action No. 549.

66 F.Supp. 195 (1946)

HAWK v. OLSON, Warden.

District Court, D. Nebraska, Lincoln Division.

June 5, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. E. Sanden, of Lincoln, Neb., for petitioner, by appointment of the court.

Walter R. Johnson, Atty. Gen. of Nebraska, Robert A. Nelson, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Nebraska, and H. Emerson Kokjer, Deputy Atty. Gen. of Nebraska, for respondent.


DELEHANT, District Judge.

The vital question of this court's jurisdiction is the subject of this memorandum in a proceeding instituted here by the petitioner to obtain his release from the Nebraska state penitentiary in which he is, and for nearly ten years has been, confined under state process pursuant to a sentence and commitment of the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. His petition, tendered to the court somewhat earlier, was filed on March 26, 1946...

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