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180 F.2d 780

Docket No. 11024.

Curran v. Shuttleworth

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided March 27, 1950.

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1950-03-27

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1969

9 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“The judgment of the District Court clearly is correct and must be affirmed. The petition fails to show that appellant complied with the requirements of § 2255, 28 U.S.C., 28 U.S.C.A., § 2255.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Ballentine v. Medical Officer in Charge

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Stallings v. Splain · McMicking v. Schields · In Re Durrant

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1950-03-27

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¶1James C. Andrews, Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio (Clarence W. Curran, Milan, Michigan, James G. Andrews, Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio, on brief), for appellant.

¶2Vincent Fordell, Detroit, Michigan (Edward T. Kane, and Vincent Fordell, Detroit, Michigan, on brief), for appellee.

¶3Before HICKS, Chief Judge and SI-MONS and ALLEN, Circuit Judges.

¶4ALLEN, Circuit Judge.

¶5Appellant was convicted of violation of § 2554(a), 26 U.S.C. [26 U.S.C.A. § 2554 (a)] and was sentenced by the District Court of the Southern District of New York to serve four years in the penitentiary. He filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan, which was refused under the provisions of § 2255, 28 U.S.C. [28 U.S.C.A. § 2255], for the reason that the applicant had failed to ask for relief by motion to the court which sentenced him.

¶6Appellant claims that no warrant for his arrest was secured, as required by the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S. C.A. He urges that a fatal defect in the proceedings exists because at the arraignment before the commissioner he was charged with the sale of two grains of morphine, whereas in the indictment he was charged with the sale of two grains of heroin. His principal contention is *781that his constitutional rights were violated at the trial by the failure of the Government to produce the informer who, as testified by the agents of the United States Bureau of Narcotics, in their presence received from the appellant a packet containing narcotics, and later delivered it to the agents.

¶7The judgment of the District Court clearly is correct and must be affirmed. The petition fails to show that appellant complied with the requirements of § 2255, 28 U.S.C., 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255. Also the errors complained of can not be reviewed by writ of habeas corpus, which can not be used as a substitute for writ of error, Schramm v. Brady, 4 Cir., 129 F.2d 108, or appeal, Leonard v. Hudspeth, Warden, 10 Cir., 112 F.2d 121. The defects in procedure in the arrest are not ground for discharge under habeas corpus, where there is sufficient ground for detention, Stallings v. Splain, 253 U.S. 339, 343, 40 S.Ct. 537, 64 L.Ed. 940, such as indictment by the grand jury. Hall v. Johnston, 9 Cir., 86 F.2d 820. Error with respect to the admission of testimony or the sufficiency of evidence can not be raised by habeas corpus proceedings. McMicking v. Schields; 238 U.S. 99, 35 S.Ct. 665, 59 L.Ed. 1220; Wright v. Brady, 4 Cir., 129 F.2d 109. Cf. Birtch v. Hunter, Warden, 10 Cir., 158 F.2d 134, certiorari denied, 331 U.S. 825, 67 S.Ct. 1314, 91 L.Ed. 1841.

¶8The fact that appellant in the warrant was charged with the sale of morphine and in the indictment with the sale of heroin, which is a derivative of morphine, is immaterial. The indictment is based upon evidence heard by the grand jury, which body is in no way bound by the terms of the charge made in a prior proceeding. Since the detention is based upon the proceedings growing out of the indictment, namely, the trial and conviction, the variance objected to can not be attacked in a habeas corpus proceeding. No question raised reached the jurisdiction of the District Court. Also it was not error for the District Court to dispose of the matter without the personal presence of the appellant, for the application shows on its face that the relief sought could not be granted. Section 2243, 28 U.S.C., 28 U.S.C.A. § 2243; Meeks v. Kaiser, Warden, 8 Cir., 125 F.2d 826; In re Boardman, 169 U.S. 39, 18 S.Ct. 291, 42 L.Ed. 653.

¶9Judgment affirmed.

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