Legal Opinion
Harold Hutson v. Edwin B. Zeigler, as Chief Probation Officer for the Southern District of Mississippi
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 17, 1966No. 23183PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from the denial without a hearing of appellant Hutson’s petition for habeas corpus. In his petition Hut-son 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. C. ch. 2), he is entitled to immediate release as having served his full sentence. The district court summarily rejected both…
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