Gene Alvin Krupnick v. United States

Upon a conviction in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, appellant was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of five years on one offense and was placed on probation for a period of five years on another, with the probation to begin at the expiration of his prison sentence.

After his period of probation had come to commence, he was taken into custody by the State of Kansas and was committed to its State Penitentiary, under a sentence which had previously been imposed upon him by the courts of that state.

In an effort to get out of the Kansas Penitentiary,…