Winston Churchill Henry v. Paul J. Madigan, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

Henry appeals from a decision in a habeas corpus proceeding in which the District Court for the Northern District of California held that the appellee Warden was entitled to imprison Henry on a sentence rendered in May, 1951, by the District Court for the District of Hawaii for conspiracy to import narcotics, the sentence being first stated “to run consecutively with any sentences [plural] that are pending against you”, later stated in the entered judgment as “a period of two years to run consecutively with any sentences [plural] now serving.”

At the time of the above…