Fitch v. Hiatt

JOHNSON, District Judge.

This is a petition for writ of habeas corpus by James E. Fitch, a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. It appears that the petitioner was tried by a general court-martial at Fort McClellan, Alabama, charged with a violation of the Ninety-Third Article of War, 10 U.S.C.A. § 1565, and was found guilty of the specification and charge; and was, inter alia, dishonorably discharged from the service and sentenced to be confined at hard labor for a period of three years and a United States Penitentiary was designated as the place of confinement.…