Howell v. Hiatt

JOHNSON, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by William Lee Howell, at present a prisoner in the Lewisburg Penitentiary, within the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

The early allegation in the petition which calls for the attention of this Court is the statement that, while serving a term under the sentence of a State Court, he was taken before the United States District Judge of the Middle District of Tennessee and sentenced to a term of three years and six months which he is now serving at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania; that at the…