Floyd Featherston v. John Mitchell, Attorney General of the United States

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

Floyd Featherston, while in federal custody and subject to the District Judge’s order committing him for psychiatric observation to the federal hospital in Springfield, Missouri, petitioned the same District Judge for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that he was being detained in violation of his federal constitutional right not to be placed twice in jeopardy for the same offense. 28 U.S..C. § 2241(c) (3) (1964); see U. S.Const, amend. V.

The United States charged Featherston with having knowingly and wilfully attempted to evade and defeat part of the income tax…