PENNYWELL v. McCARREY

No. 15976.

255 F.2d 735 (1958)

Jim PENNYWELL, Petitioner, v. Honorable J. L. McCARREY, Jr., Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

May 8, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Kalamarides, Anchorage, Alaska, Edgar Paul Boyko, San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner.

Wm. T. Plummer, U. S. Atty., Anchorage, Alaska, for respondent.

Before STEPHENS, Chief Judge, and POPE and HAMLEY, Circuit Judges.


HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.

This matter is before us on our order to show cause why a writ of prohibition and a writ of mandamus should not issue, and upon respondent's return thereto.

The petitioner, Jim Pennywell, is presently in danger of being apprehended and imprisoned under a bench warrant authorized to be issued by the District Court for the District of Alaska, Third Division. Asserting that the named district court is without jurisdiction in the matter...

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