ROBBINS v. GREEN

No. 4879.

218 F.2d 192 (1954)

Allan L. ROBBINS, Warden, Maine State Prison, Appellant, v. George F. GREEN, Petitioner, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided December 21, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger A. Putnam, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Alexander A. LaFleur, Atty. Gen., was on the brief, for appellant.

Milton A. Nixon and Chapman, Beyer, Nixon & Earles, Portland, Maine, for appellee.

Before MAGRUDER, Chief Judge, and WOODBURY and HARTIGAN, Circuit Judges.


MAGRUDER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by the warden of Maine State Prison from an order of the district court entered July 16, 1954, in a habeas corpus proceeding discharging appellee George F. Green from confinement in said prison pursuant to a superior court judgment of conviction on May 17, 1949, of the crime of uttering a forged instrument. The district judge signed a certificate of probable cause for appeal, as required by 28 U.S.C. § 2253.

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