Jimmie Darnell v. Chesley H. Looney, Warden U.S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas

This was a proceeding in habeas corpus. The substance of the petition for the writ was that an indictment containing seven counts was returned against petitioner in the United States Court for the Northern District of Texas; that on May 21, 1948, the court sentenced petitioner to imprisonment for a period of two years on each count and provided that the several sentences should run consecutively but failed to provide the order of sequence in which the sentences should be served; that in the absence of a provision fixing the sequence in which the several sentences should be served, they all…