Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Potens
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided December 18, 1945No. 2932PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFFY, District Judge.
This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner is confined at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Milwaukee, Wis., pursuant to a sentence of a general court martial which was held by the United States Army at Fort Sheridan, Ill. Petitioner was found guilty of absence without leave, 61st Article of War, 10 U.S.C.A. § 1533, and was sentenced, after modification by the Board of Review, to dishonorable discharge and confinement for three years in a disciplinary barracks.
Asserting that he never was inducted into the military service, petitioner claims his…
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