Batson v. Squier

GARRECHT, Circuit Judge.

Appellant appeals from the order of the lower court denying his application for a writ of habeas corpus against P. J. Squier, Warden, United States Penitentiary at McNeil Island.

The appellant was indicted in the District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma on two counts in violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act.1

Count One charged the appellant and one Cleat Collins with unlawfully receiving at Valiant, Oklahoma, a motor vehicle from persons unknown, which had been stolen at Port Arthur, Texas, and which automobile had been transported in interstate…