Terrell v. Biddle

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

On May 25, 1943, the appellant, an inmate of the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, Missouri, filed in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri a “Motion to Vacate erroneous Sentence and to resentence to conform to the Statute,” in a cause entitled, “The United States of America, Plaintiff, versus H. E. Terrell, Defendant.” The prayer of the motion was for a writ of habeas corpus directed to the Attorney General and the Warden of the Medical Center and for a correction of sentences which the motion…