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GRAHAM v. THOMPSON

No. 5561.

246 F.2d 805 (1957)

Marcell GRAHAM, Warden, Utah State Prison, Appellant, v. Phillip THOMPSON, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

June 25, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter L. Budge, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Utah (E. R. Callister, Atty. Gen., State of Utah, was with him on the brief), for appellant.

V. G. Seavy, Jr., Denver, Colo. (Phillip Thompson submitted a brief in pro. per.), for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, PICKETT and LEWIS, Circuit Judges.

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

Phillip Thompson, the petitioner herein, an inmate at the Utah State Prison, brought this habeas corpus proceeding against the Warden, seeking his release from the institution upon the grounds that he had served his sentence and was entitled to be discharged.1 The petition raises the issue of the nature of a prisoner's right to an allowance of the good time provided for by the Utah statutes when, after commission...

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