THOMPSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 19303.

453 F.2d 887 (1971)

Robert Glenn THOMPSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 22, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Glenn Thompson, pro se.

Harry A. Nagle, Asst. U.S. Atty., Lewisburg, Pa. (S. John Cottone, U.S. Atty., Scranton, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, KALODNER and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM:

The appellant, an inmate of the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, filed in the district court a motion for leave to file in forma pauperis a pleading entitled as a petition for a "Writ of Habeas Corpus Cum Causa." In this pleading he complained that the prison authorities refused to permit him to receive from the East German Red Cross a monthly gratuity of fifty dollars. Appellant is an East German national...

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