Pelley v. Matthews

CLARK, Associate Justice.

Appellant is in this jurisdiction under a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum, having been brought here from the United States Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was serving a term of fifteen years imposed on him by the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Indiana for violation of the Sedition Law. Appellant was brought here to stand trial in the well-known and so-called “Mass Sedition Case.”1 While in this jurisdiction, he filed with the court below his petition for a writ of habeas corpus attacking the jurisdiction of the…