Application of Robert Edward Lipscomb for a Writ of Habeas Corpus

This is an appeal by Robert Edward Lipscomb, applicant, from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, denying his. application for a writ of habeas corpus. We will refer to Lipscomb by name or as appellant.

Lipscomb, according to the statement of the case in his brief, was convicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on April 6, 1951 and sentenced to imprisonment for 25 years. He claims, although it does not appear in the record, that the sentence was reduced to 20 years on or about June 30,…