Hogan v. Hill

JOHNSON, District Judge.

This is a petition by an inmate of the United States Northeastern Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., for a writ of mandamus to compel the warden of the said penitentiary to produce the petitioner before a United States commissioner for a hearing under the Indigent Convict Act (18 USCA § 641).

The petitioner previously applied to this court for release on a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that two sentences of imprisonment and fines which were imposed upon him by the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and the District Court for the Eastern District of…