Freeman Ray Stanford v. J. C. Taylor, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas

This appeal is from an order of the District Court for the District of Kansas denying appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus as insufficient upon its face to entitle petitioner to relief. Petitioner, while serving a five-year sentence, escaped and was subsequently apprehended and sentenced to an additional consecutive sentence of two-and-one-half years for such escape. Given a mandatory release on February 13, 1963, he was returned to custody on September 5, 1963, for violation of the terms of his release, to serve 763 days of good time previously allowed on the aggregated…