MOORE v. REID

No. 13581.

246 F.2d 654 (1957)

James Clarence MOORE, Appellant, v. Curtis REID et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Dayton M. Harrington, Washington, D. C. (appointed by the District Court), for appellant.

Mr. E. Tillman Stirling, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Edward P. Troxell, Principal Asst. U. S. Atty., and Lewis Carroll, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and WILBUR K. MILLER and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.


DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, having been sentenced to serve a three to nine year sentence for housebreaking, was conditionally released from Atlanta Penitentiary on July 16, 1955, after earning 1,038 days' "good time" credit. On December 20, 1955, he was arrested for violation of a condition of his release, and was imprisoned at once. Action upon his petition for a writ of habeas corpus was deferred upon the Government's representation that a Parole Board Examiner...

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