Morgan v. Adams
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas; John C. .Pollock, Judge. Habeas corpus by James Adams, alias James Allen, against Thomas \V. Morgan, Warden of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The warden of the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth challenges an order of the court-below directing the discharge from his custody of James Adams on a writ of habeas corpus upon this state of facts: On February 10, 1913, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio sentenced Adams on each of two counts of an indictment against him to the payment of a fine and to imprisonment in the penitentiary at Leavenworth for the term of five years after that date, and “ordered that the sentence as to imprisonment be suspended during good behavior,”…
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