WELLS v. SWOPE

No. 33471.

121 F.Supp. 718 (1954)

WELLS v. SWOPE, Warden.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

June 4, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris M. Grupp, San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner.

Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., Richard H. Foster, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for respondent.


HARRIS, District Judge.

Petitioner, confined at Alcatraz Penitentiary, seeks to obtain his release. In his petition for writ of habeas corpus petitioner alleges that he has completed service of a twenty-five year sentence imposed for bank robbery by the District Court in Texas. A consecutive sentence of twenty years remains unserved. Petitioner attacks such sentence on the ground that it is void and constitutes double jeopardy.

The procedural record discloses...

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