Collins v. McDonald
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. Appeal from an order- of the District Court sustaining a demurrer to a petition for habeas corpus and refusing the writ.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Claeke
In February, 1920, Roy Marshall, a private in the United States Army, -serving at Vladivostok, Siberia, was tried for robbery by a court martial there convened, was found guilty and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary at McNeil’s Island.
Five months later, when Marshall was at the Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, awaiting transportation to McNeil’s Island, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed in his behalf by his attorney, G. D. Collins, in the District Court for the Northern District, of California.
In response to a rule to show cause why the writ should not…
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