Sanders v. Sanford

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment discharging a writ of habeas corpus and remanding the petitioner to the custody of the Warden.

Appellant was indicted under 12 U.S. C.A. § 588b (a) (b), for the armed robbery of a national bank in Hyattsville, Maryland. His defense to that prosecution was an alibi, the claim'being that he was a visitor in the Florida State Prison at Raiford, Florida, at the precise time the robbery was committed. He introduced in evidence the visitors’ record kept by -the prison, which indicated that he was at the prison at the time of the robbery. Other…