JOHNSON v. DYE

No. 138.

71 F.Supp. 262 (1947)

JOHNSON v. DYE.

District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

April 18, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hymen Schlesinger and Samuel J. Goldstein, both of Pittsburgh, Pa., for relator.

Louis L. Kaufman and Raymond D. Evans, both of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Charles F. Uhl, U. S. Atty., of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the United States.


McVICAR, District Judge.

Leon Johnson, in his petition for a writ of Habeas Corpus in this case, set forth that he is a resident of the City of Clairton, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and is unlawfully imprisoned in the custody of the Warden of the Allegheny County Jail by a detainer of the District Attorney of Allegheny County, at the request of authorities of Cobb County, Georgia; that on January 25, 1943, he was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to imprisonment...

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