James Curtis McKinney v. J. C. Taylor, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, denying the appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On December 19, 1955, McKinney was sentenced in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, to serve a term of 12% years. He is now confined in the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. The substance of the allegations of his petition is that he has served his sentence and is entitled to release. The petition was dismissed without a hearing.

On July 15, 1963, the United States Board of Parole…