Jorgensen
Jorgensen v. Swope
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Wilbur, J.
This is an appeal from an order denying petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus. The court held that the facts stated in the petition were insufficient to' entitle the appellant to a writ. If so the denial was proper. 28 U.S.C.A. § 455 ; Walker v. Johnston, 9 Cir., 109 F.2d 436 ; Brown v. Johnston, 9 Cir., 91 F.2d 370 .
The petition states that in the Southern Division of the United States District *989 Court for the Northern District of California the petitioner, upon arraignment, on December 16, 1936, plead guilty to an indictment charging him with the transportation across a state line of a stolen automobile, known by him to have been stolen, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 408 , ch. 89, Secs. 1 to 5, 41 Stats. 324. The court sentenced petitioner to a term of three years in a federal penitentiary. While confined therein he escaped from a federal road camp at Kooskia, Idaho, was apprehended, indicted, and plead guilty to an escape. For this offense he was sentenced to a term of two years in a federal penitentiary, the term to begin at the end of the term for which he was already under sentence.