Hugh Donald Yankey v. United States

ORDER.

The appellant, Hugh Donald Yankey, has appealed from denial by the United States District Court of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. He was convicted of bank robbery and sentenced by Judge Shelbourne to twenty years’ imprisonment.

This court is of opinion that petition for habeas corpus was not the proper procedure to be pursued by appellant in support of his allegations that his constitutional rights had been violated.

Among other things, Section 2255, Title 28 U.S.C.A., provides: “An application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a prisoner who is authorized to apply for…