United States ex rel. Steinberg v. Cummings

JOHNSON, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Samuel Steinberg, an inmate of the United States Northeastern Penitentiary, at Lewisburg, Pa.

The petitioner was sentenced on May 17, 1932, by the District Court for the Southern District of New York to a term of five years in a United States penitentiary. The sentence provided that execution thereof was to begin on May 17, 1932, but that petitioner was to remain at Detention Headquarters at New York City for thirty days before being sent to the penitentiary. On June 17, 1932, the petitioner secured a stay of execution…