McIlvaine v. Henderson

WEST, Chief Judge:

Petitioner, Daniel Edward Mellvaine, presently incarcerated in Louisiana State Penitentiary, seeks a-writ of habeas corpus. He is serving a fifteen year sentence imposed upon him on November 27, 1962, for violation of Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:962, i. e., having on the 19th of March, 1962, possession of twenty tablets of Morphine and two tablets of Dilaudid. In July of 1966 petitioner filed an application with this Court for a writ of habeas corpus, but when the matter came on for hearing it was voluntarily dismissed by petitioner’s counsel because of the fact that…