Landis v. Hill
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, District Judge.
The petitioner, and Harry C. Flohr, alias Herman Andrews, were jointly indicted, tried, and convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and were sentenced on May 12,1933, to imprisonment in the United States Northeastern Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., for a term of one year and one day on count 1 and one year and one day on count 5, to run concurrently. Both defendants have filed petitions for writs of habeas corpus alleging that they are illegally restrained of their liberty because the indictment under which they were…
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