HENRY v. MADIGAN

No. 15353.

241 F.2d 659 (1957)

Winston Churchill HENRY, Appellant, v. Paul J. MADIGAN, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

February 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Winston Churchill Henry, in pro. per.

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

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and ORR and POPE, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

Henry appeals from a decision in a habeas corpus proceeding in which the District Court for the Northern District of California held that the appellee Warden was entitled to imprison Henry on a sentence rendered in May, 1951, by the District Court for the District of Hawaii for conspiracy to import narcotics, the sentence being first stated "to run consecutively with any sentences [plural] that are pending against you", later stated in the entered...

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