Charles Harlan Bales v. P. A. Lainson, Warden, Lowa State Penitentiary

JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

The District Court denied, without a hearing, a petition by an inmate of the Iowa State Penitentiary for a writ of habeas corpus, and the prisoner has appealed. 1

The only basis for a federal writ which the petition contained was a charge, made by appellant in paragraph 4, that his conviction and sentence rested upon perjured testimony, which the prosecuting attorney had knowingly used.

As to this charge, the response filed by appellee, pursuant to the order to show cause issued by the court, merely stated “that he has no knowledge of or reason to believe that the…