Donald C. Clemmer, Director, Department of Corrections for the District of Columbia v. Nathan H. Alexander

FAHY, Circuit Judge.

The question is whether the Indigent Prisoners’ Act, set forth in pertinent part in the margin, 1 is applicable to an indigent prisoner sentenced by the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia on a conviction of vagrancy, infra n. 7. The District Court held that the Act was applicable and ordered appellee restored to his liberty upon compliance with its pauper’s oath provision. He thereupon took the oath before a United States Commissioner. The present appeal from the order of the District Court is by the Director of the Department of Corrections for the District of…