Jack Kenneth Brown v. J. O. Kearney, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Texarkana, Texas

This is an appeal in forma pauperis1 from the district court’s denial, after a. hearing, of the petition of a federal prisoner for issuance of the writ of habeas, corpus. The sole law question presented is whether a federal prisoner, sentenced, by two different federal courts to serve1 two consecutive sentences, commences to. serve the second on the date upon which he would be entitled to mandatory release from the first, were it the only sentence. We hold that he does not, and affirm the judgment of the district court.

On November 8, 1954, appellant was. sentenced in the United States…