Harrison v. Snook

SIBLEY, District Judge.

The applicant was sentenced in a federal court in South Carolina to serve a sentence of more than a year in the South Carolina state penitentiary, to run concurrently with a state sentence there. During the term of the sentences the Governor of South Carolina, under the parole laws of that state (Cr. Code S. C. 1922, § 969), ordered the applicant to be released on parole, and he was released. Thereupon the Attorney General of the United States ordered his arrest and transfer to the United States ’penitentiary at Atlanta. After incarceration there applicant brings habeas…