DAYTON v. BENNETT

No. 5020.

218 F.2d 696 (1955)

Dexter C. DAYTON, Appellant, v. James V. BENNETT, Director, Bureau of Prisons; and Chesley H. Looney, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

January 28, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dexter C. Dayton, pro se.

Selby S. Soward, Asst. U. S. Atty., Topeka, Kan. (William C. Farmer, U. S. Atty., Wichita, Kan., on the brief), for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, BRATTON, Circuit Judge, and VAUGHT, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing an application for a writ of habeas corpus.

The petitioner, Dayton, is confined in the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. In his application for the writ, he alleged that he was being deprived of his constitutional rights by the respondents in that he had prepared a civil complaint sounding in libel against the Washington Times-Herald, publisher of a newspaper in Washington, D. C., as defendant...

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