HUTSON v. ZEIGLER

No. 23183.

362 F.2d 200 (1966)

Harold HUTSON, Appellant, v. Edwin B. ZEIGLER, as Chief Probation Officer for the Southern District of Mississippi, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 17, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Frederick Rothstein, (Court-appointed), Joel J. Finer, Allen Smith, Austin, Tex., for appellant.

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

Before HUTCHESON and RIVES, Circuit Judges, and CHOATE, District Judge.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from the denial without a hearing of appellant Hutson's petition for habeas corpus. In his petition Hutson challenged the constitutionality of his present confinement on two grounds: first, that he was unconstitutionally denied appointive counsel on appeal from his original conviction; and second, that because of his peculiar status as an Alaska territorial offender in federal custody after the Alaska Statehood Act (48 U.S...

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