Welton Hamirich v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary

J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge:

Because the district court refused to grant his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Welton Hamrick has prosecuted this appeal. For the reasons set out hereinafter, we affirm the judgment below.

In 1942 the petitioner was convicted of murder in the Corporation Court of the City of Alexandria, Virginia, and received a sentence of eighteen years. Had he not escaped from custody or been paroled, his sentence would have expired in October, 1954. However, Ham-rick escaped once in 1946 and twice in 1949, and because of these offenses, he not only lost the good conduct…