Henry E. Outlaw, Jr. v. L. M. Connett, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution

Henry E. Outlaw, Jr., a prisoner in the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, filed an action essentially in the nature of mandamus 1 2 in the District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Outlaw seeks credit for 117 days which he alleges he spent in custody as a consequence of a federal detain-er warrant prior to the time he commenced to serve his present sentence. The district court treated Outlaw’s petition as an application for the writ of ha-beas corpus and denied relief for lack of jurisdiction. We find that the court properly denied relief but for the reason that…