WADE v. HUNTER

No. 980.

72 F.Supp. 755 (1947)

WADE v. HUNTER.

District Court, D. Kansas, First Division.

May 9, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard T. Brewster, of Kansas City, and N. E. Snyder, of Kansas City, Kan., for petitioner.

Randolph Carpenter, U. S. Atty., Eugene W. Davis, Asst. U. S. Atty. and James W. Wallace, Asst. U. S. Atty., all of Topeka, Kan. (Colonel William J. Hughes, Jr., JAGD, of Washington, D. C., and Colonel Franklin Riter, JAGD, of Salt Lake City, Utah, on the brief), for respondent.


MELLOTT, District Judge.

Petitioner, an inmate of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, assails, by a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the legality of his commitment and detention. Copy of the order of a general court-martial1 under which he is held is attached to his petition and to the response of the Warden. Petitioner alleges that the order is illegal and void for several...

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