Crites v. Hill

JOHNSON, District Judge.

This is a petition by L. Roy Crites, an inmate of the United States Northeastern Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., to .compel the warden thereof to change certain alleged erroneous records of the penitentiary relating to petitioner’s sentence.

’The respondent filed a motion to dismiss, for the reason that this court has no •original jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandamus in this case, and also for the reason that the petition on its face does not show that the petitioner is entitled to the relief ’prayed for by mandamus.

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