United States of America Ex Rel. William Stewart v. Frank J. Pate, Warden

KILEY, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Stewart appeals from a district court judgment denying him habeas corpus relief after an evidentiary hearing. We affirm.

In April, 1948, while serving sentences imposed in 1942 — one for life for armed robbery, and one for one year to life for burglary — Stewart was indicted for and pled guilty to murder of a fellow inmate in Menard Penitentiary. He was given a 99 year sentence. In 1968 he was paroled from the 1942 sentences, and the Illinois Pardon and Parole Board then informed him that he was to commence the 1948 sentence of 99 years. In March of 1969 the…