Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Billings
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided September 11, 1942No. 776PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOPKINS, District Judge.
This is a habeas corpus case. Petitioner contends that he is unlawfully restrained of his liberty and held for army service by Maj. Gen. Karl Truesdell, United States Army, Leavenworth, Kansas; that petitioner is not a member of the armed forces of the United States, is not subject to military jurisdiction, and that he should be brought before the civil courts for any alleged unlawful act committed by him. In response the Army sets up that petitioner was duly inducted into the Army on or about August 13, 1942, for the duration of the war and that formal charges had…
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3Cited by7 opinions
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