PHILLIPS v. HIATT

No. 7.

83 F.Supp. 935 (1949)

PHILLIPS v. HIATT, Warden.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

April 26, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Finger (Richards, Layton & Finger) and William S. Megonigal, Jr. (Morris, Steel, Nichols & Arsht), all of Wilmington, Del., for petitioner.

William Marvel, U. S. Atty., and Daniel L. Herrmann, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Wilmington, Del., for respondent.


RODNEY, District Judge.

The question in this case is whether a United States District Court has the power or jurisdiction to issue a writ of habeas corpus or other writ in the nature thereof on behalf of a person confined in a federal penitentiary outside the territorial limits of such court under a sentence imposed by another United States District Court, when the purpose of the writ is to have the prisoner brought within...

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