Harris v. Hunter

PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order discharging a writ of habeas corpus.

Harris, the petitioner, while serving a seven-year military sentence in the United States Disciplinary Barracks, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, escaped. He was apprehended in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Thereafter, on January 30, 1947, an indictment was returned in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma charging him-with the violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 408.1 He appeared in person and with counsel and entered a plea of guilty, and was sentenced to the custody of the…