Chandler v. Johnston

GARRECHT, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Elmer Chandler, who is incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary at Alcatraz, California, filed in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, Southern Division, a petition for writ of habeas corpus, alleging, in substance, that he has fully served the sentences imposed upon him and that he is now being illegally detained in said prison. Upon consideration of the petition and the return to an order to show cause made by James A. Johnston, warden of the Alcatraz penitentiary, the district court entered an order…