GIBBS v. BLACKWELL

No. 22286.

354 F.2d 469 (1965)

Estis L. GIBBS, Appellant, v. Olin G. BLACKWELL, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 6, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Estis L. Gibbs, pro se.

F. D. Hand, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., Charles L. Goodson, U. S. Atty., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Estis L. Gibbs, formerly a private in the United States Army but now an inmate of the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, filed a petition for habeas corpus challenging (1) the right of the United States to further confine him after 20 years in prison or on parole, and (2) the validity of his conviction by court-martial at Munich, Germany, in July 1945. Gibbs contends that he is now serving a 15-year sentence but has spent 20 years either...

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