Hicks v. Reid

BAZELON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, denied by the District Court, presents this situation. He was sentenced by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to serve nine to thirteen and one-half years. A federal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 716(b), made his release mandatory at the expiration of the maximum sentence less time off for good behavior. It was pursuant to that statute that he was released on June 19, 1949. But this same statute also conditioned that release as follows:

“Any prisoner who shall have served the ' term or terms for which he…