Wion

Court of Claims; jurisdiction; tort claim. — Plaintiff, who was convicted of violating section 1716 of Title 18 U.S.C. and sentenced 'to serve twenty years in prison in 1962, sought to obtain credit against his sentence for the six months he had spent in the Denver County jail prior to trial. This petition and a later petition filed in 1967 to the Attorney General were 'both denied whereupon plaintiff filed suit in this court to recover $250,000 as damages for such incarceration. Defendant has filed a motion to dismiss the petition on the ground that plaintiff’s claims sound in tort and are…