Lucas v. Matthews

CLIFFORD, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in which the petitioner alleges that he is unlawfully held and restrained of his liberty by Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Navy, and the Officer-In-Charge of the United States Naval Disciplinary Barracks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, physic.ally situated in the State of Maine, in which petitioner alleges that the Commandant of .the Fourth Naval District had no jurisdiction to convene a general court-martial at the United States Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, between April 14, 1948, and May 20, 1949, during…