Raymond Leonard Reese v. C. H. Looney, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

This habeas corpus proceeding raises the question of whether a Court Martial sentence runs concurrently with two civil court sentences which were imposed after the petitioner had escaped from the military authorities while awaiting transfer to the Attorney General of the United States for the purpose of serving a four year military sentence in a United States penal institution. 1 The trial court held that the sentences did not run concurrently, vacated the writ of habeas corpus, and dismissed the petition.

The facts are not in dispute. On July 7, 1954 the petitioner, a…