Hadley v. United States

Plaintiff sues under the Act of May 24, 1938,1 for damages for unlawful imprisonment in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. He alleges he was indicted for having entered a national bank at Amarillo, Texas, with the intent of passing on said bank a forged check for $323.00. He pleaded guilty to the indictment and was sentenced to the penitentiary for 10 years.

He had served more than a year of this sentence, when the Supreme Court delivered its opinion in the case of Jerome v. United States, 318 U. S. 101. In this case it was held that the entry into a national bank for the purpose of…