Fitzgerald v. Sanford

The applicant for habeas corpus was sentenced in Pennsylvania to six years’ imprisonment on Oct. 17, 1937. He served this sentence, less good time allowance under 18 U.S.C.A. § 710, and was conditionally released on Dec. 23, 1941, under 18 U.S.C.A. § 716b. Not giving bond, he was taken to New Jersey, where an indictment for another offense was pending. On it he was sentenced on July 22, 1942, to a term of four years and returned to the penitentiary. If both sentences had been in effect dufing the first period of imprisonment, the more liberal good time allowance on the aggregate sentences of…