Wright v. Johnston

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner seeks release from the United States Penitentiary at Alcatraz, California, where he has served three and one-third years of a sentence of five years upon which he pleaded guilty. Were there no further sentence he would be entitled to release under 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 710, 744h.

Petitioner is held there under sentences aggregating ten years, imposed after trial upon the following counts of an indictment in the Eastern District of Illinois: Breaking into United States Post Office, 18 U.S. *26C.A. § 315; Stealing government property, 18 U.S.C.A. § 313; Conspiracy.

Petitione…