Goldsmith v. Sanford

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

H. Ely Goldsmith is serving a seven year sentence in the penitentiary in Atlanta, imposed in 1939. Just before he would become eligible to parole he filed an application therefor and shortly thereafter a member of the Parole Board interviewed him on the subject in the penitentiary, the interview being stenographically reported. The member’s docket shows the proceeding was “continued to Washington”, along with several others, and there the full *127Board considered the stenographic report, and other evidence in Goldsmith’s absence, and denied’ him parole. He asked a rehearing…