Carroll

According to his petition for writ of habeas corpus, filed in the court below, Jack L. Carroll, on May 7, 1936, was convicted for violation of the Harrison Narcotic Act, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code, § 2550 et seq., in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, and was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of five years. Carroll was incarcerated at Leavenworth Penitentiary until September 11, 1939, when he was conditionally released from imprisonment by the* United- States Board of Parole. At that time the prisoner had to his credit a deduction from his sentence of 480 days’ good-conduct deduction, 18 U.S.C.A. § 710 , and 123 days’ industrial good time deduction, 18 U.S.C.A. § 744h, this latter by reason of having worked in prison industries. The conditional discharge, as indicated by its name, imposed certain duties and restrictions upon the releasee, one of which was that he must go to and remain within the Northern District of California, and another, that he must report each month to the United States Probation Officer for that District. The petitioner alleged that he refused to agree to his release upon the conditions imposed, because he did…