Copeland

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Southern Division, denying a writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant, J. J. Copeland, on December 8, 1928, was sentenced by the United States District Court for the District of Colorado to the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., on three separate counts of an indictment charging the acceptance of a bribe as a witness, which offense is punishable by. imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years (18 USCA § 240). On each of the three counts, a different briber was alleged. On count one defendant was sentenced to one year and a day, on count two to- six months, and on count th-ree to six months, the sentences to run consecutively. Prior to the expiration of the year and a day sentence on count one, appellant was transferred to the United States Penitentiary at McNeil’s Island, the legality of which sentence and the legality of which transfer he does 'not question, and he has served the full sentence of one year and a day -on said count one. He has also served the six months required by the sentence on count two, and has served two months (on June 16) of his sentence…