Clell Johnson v. J. C. Taylor, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas

The appellant Johnson was convicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California for the offense of transporting in interstate commerce falsely made securities in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2314. The sentences on the different counts in the information on which he was convicted totalled 10 years. While serving these sentences in the United States Penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, Johnson escaped. Thereafter he was sentenced to serve an additional term of 4 years consecutively with the sentences he was then serving. He is now confined in the United States…