Delphos B. Burns v. Sherman H. Crouse, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas

This appeal is taken from an order of the District Court for the District of Kansas denying appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas coitus.

Petitioner, a state prisoner, alleges that pursuant to a judgment of conviction for the crime of manslaughter rendered October 12, 1956, he was sentenced to an indeterminate term of confinement of from five to twenty-one years; that at the date of conviction good time was governed by statutory law in Kansas, G.S.Kan.1949, 76-2421; that the cited statute was subsequently repealed and statutory authority granted to the Kansas State Board of Probation and…