Moorehead v. Hunter, Warden

HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

This ■ is an appeal from the judgment of the trial court, discharging a writ of habeas corpus and remanding appellant to the custody of Walter Ai Hunter, Warden of the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. The facts are these. On June 7, ■1946, appellant was committed to serve a three year sentence for violation of the Dyer Act [1948 Revised Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2311 et seq.]. The maximum expiration date of the sentence, without good time, was June 6, 1949. Appellant earned 304 days of good time, which made him eligible for conditional release and he was…