UNITED STATES EX REL. JENKINS v. HENDRICKS

No. 17192.

405 F.2d 182 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Hughley JENKINS, 04514, Appellant, v. Edward J. HENDRICKS, Supt. Philadelphia Prisons, Pennsylvania.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided December 18, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hughley Jenkins, pro se.

Welsh S. White and Roger F. Cox, Asst. Dist. Attys., Philadelphia, Pa. (Michael J. Rotko, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief, Appeals Division, Richard A. Sprague, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before KALODNER, FORMAN and STAHL, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

In the instant case the relator Jenkins on October 24, 1967, petitioned the District Court for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that he had been deprived by the Pennsylvania courts of his constitutional rights to a "speedy preliminary hearing"; a "speedy trial"; and a prompt disposition of his motion to suppress evidence.

The District Court denied Jenkins' petition on November 15, 1967 on the ground that there had...

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