SIGLER v. BIRD

No. 18001.

354 F.2d 694 (1966)

Maurice H. SIGLER, Warden, Nebraska State Penitentiary, Appellant, v. Roland F. BIRD, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

January 14, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Williams, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lincoln, Neb., for appellant.

Harvey L. Goth, Lincoln, Neb., for appellee.

Before MATTHES and GIBSON, Circuit Judges, and REGAN, District Judge.


MATTHES, Circuit Judge.

This habeas corpus proceeding was instituted in the United States District Court, District of Nebraska, by Roland F. Bird, state prisoner in the Nebraska Penal & Correctional Complex at Lincoln, Nebraska.1 The court granted Bird's (appellee's) petition. See, Bird v. Sigler, 241 F.Supp. 1007 (D.C Neb.1964). Maurice H. Sigler, warden of the institution, (appellant)...

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