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JACKSON v. HUMPHREY

No. 282.

135 F.Supp. 776 (1955)

Chester E. JACKSON, Petitioner, v. George W. HUMPHREY, Warden, Respondent.

United States District Court M. D. Pennsylvania.

November 25, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Van Susteren & Bollenbeck, Appleton, Wis., Charles W. Kalp, Lewisburg, Pa., for petitioner.

J. Julius Levy, U. S. Atty., Roger A. Woltjen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Scranton, Pa., James K. Gaynor, Lieutenant Colonel, Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

FOLLMER, District Judge.

The petitioner, now a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, seeking a writ of habeas corpus, was a soldier in the United States Army at the time he was convicted by general court-martial in Korea on June 8, 1951. He was found guilty of the premeditated murder of a Korean woman on March 16, 1951, in violation of Article of War 92, 10 U.S.C.A. § 1564

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