A. McDonald Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Texarkana, Texas v. Morris W. Lee
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Circuit Judge.
In a habeas corpus proceeding the district court held that two court-martial sentences, the first for ten years and the second for six months, were served concurrently by Morris W. Lee up to the time he completed the six months sentence, and hence that he was entitled to be released on December 10, 1953 at the expiration of his ten year sentence.
On January 20, 1947, Lee, then a private in the United States Army in Gérmany, was tried and found guilty by a general court-martial of the offenses of escape from confinement in violation of Article of War 69, 41 Stat. 802, and…
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