John P. Mitchell v. Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General, and J. C. Taylor, Warden, Unitedstates Penitentiary

HILL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a denial of a petition for habeas corpus.

As a preliminary matter the appellant urges the necessity of adding the Board of Parole as an additional party here. 18 U.S.C. § 4203 expressly provides that custody and control of parolees shall be in the Attorney General, who has entered an appearance here through counsel, therefore, there is no need for the Board of Parole to become a party.

The undisputed facts are as follows: On July 2, 1944, appellant was convicted by an Army General Courts-Martial in England of (1) the premeditated murder of another…