THOMPSON v. WILLINGHAM

No. 14329.

318 F.2d 657 (1963)

Gordon Jay THOMPSON, Appellant, v. J. T. WILLINGHAM, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon Jay Thompson, pro se.

Bernard J. Brown, U. S. Atty., Lewisburg, Pa., Lt. Col. James C. Waller, Jr., JAGC, Washington, D. C. (Harry A. Nagle, Asst. U. S. Atty., Lewisburg, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before McLAUGHLIN and FORMAN, Circuit Judges, and COOLAHAN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Gordon Jay Thompson, a former private in the United States Army, was convicted by a general court martial on July 28, 1959 of premeditated murder, larceny and reckless driving in violation of respective Articles 118, 121 and 111 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (10 U.S.C.A. §§ 918, 921 and 911). He was sentenced, among other sanctions, to life imprisonment, which he is now serving at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania...

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