United States of America, Ex Rel. Leonard J. Vraniak v. Ross v. Randolph, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, Menard, Illinois

SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.

By this appeal, Leonard J. Vraniak seeks reversal of an order of the district court in a habeas corpus proceeding. That court 1 sustained the constitutionality of the Aiding Escape Act of Illinois, § 228, ch. 38, Illinois Revised Statutes 1957, which act, Vraniak argues, violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Following his conviction of violation of that act, he was sentenced by the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois, to a term of not less than six years nor more than ten years, which sentence he began serving on September 15,…