Legal Opinion

United States ex rel. Gant v. Banmiller

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided August 10, 1961No. M-2301Published

1Opinion of the Court

WOOD, District Judge.

This petition, filed in forma pauperis, was obviously drawn by the prisoner himself without assistance of counsel. In light of those facts, we have carefully examined and construed all of the facts, allegations and conclusions in the light most favorable to him.

The petition presents no Federal question involving a violation of the constitutional rights of the petitioner. Giving him all benefit possible, the petition merely sets forth that he was arrested in Brooklyn, New York in 1948; brought to Philadelphia after an interval of seventy-two hours’ lapse of time between…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Townsend v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
  2. Conley v. CoxCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1943
  3. James L. Presley v. Vernon L. Peppersack, Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1955
  4. Sandford v. United StatesDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1944

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