Huff v. O'Bryant

This is an appeal by the General Superintendent of the District of Columbia Penal Institutions from a final order of the District Court sustaining a writ of habeas corpus. The question for decision is the validity of the action of the Attorney General in transferring petitioner (appellee) from the National Training School for Boys in the District of Columbia to the District Reformatory at Lorton, Virginia.

A brief history of the case follows. Petitioner on January 7, 1939, being then under eighteen years of age, was brought before the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, charged with…