Joe Tubbs v. United States

Appellant, serving a ten-year sentence imposed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, sought a hearing in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas upon his petition for habeas corpus. The court denied the petition without hearing, setting forth in its order that petitioner’s claim for release from federal custody was based upon the same matters which had been reviewed by that court in habeas corpus proceedings in 1955 and found to lack merit and further that the petitioner had not…