JOHNSON v. WARD

No. 5-59.

171 F.Supp. 26 (1959)

Manuel JOHNSON, Petitioner, v. Charles H. WARD, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, Respondent.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

February 26, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert J. Ahern, Jr., James J. Laughlin, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Oscar Altshuler, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., for respondent.


YOUNGDAHL, District Judge.

Petitioner has filed a writ of habeas corpus alleging that his detention, under warrant of the United States Board of Parole, is unlawful.

On January 24, 1936, in this court, petitioner was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to a term of thirty years. After spending two years in the District of Columbia Reformatory at Lorton, Virginia, he was transferred to the penitentiary at Leavenworth where he remained about fifteen...

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