Bowen v. Johnson

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

This is an-appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denying appellant a writ of habeas corpus.

The facts are not in dispute. Appellant is confined in the United States prison at Alcatraz Island, California, under restraint of defendant, the prison warden. He was indicted December 14, 1930; convicted of murder under the provisions of § 273 of the Penal Code of the United States, 18 U.S.C.A. § 452; sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States District Court of Georgia for the Northern Division; and transferred…