Van Gorder v. Johnston

GARRECHT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the court below denying petition of appellant for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant is at the present time detained at the *655Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. He brought his petition for writ before the District Court alleging that he had served out a sentence imposed by the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas which was to commence after the expiration of a sentence imposed by the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Illinois, upon the contention that…