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287 F. 703

Docket No. 6127.

Biddle v. Walt

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided February 26, 1923.)

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1923-02-26

Opinion by Jacob Trieber · Decided 1923-02-26

¶1Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas; John 0. Pollock, Judge.

¶2Habeas corpus by George Walt and Sam Leider against W. I. Biddle, Warden of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. Writ granted, and defendant appeals.

¶3Reversed.

¶4Al. F. Williams, U. S. Atty., of Topeka, Kan. (W. W. Harvey, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Topeka, Kan., on the brief), for appellant.

¶5Lee Bond, of Leavenworth, Kan., for appellees.

¶6Before LEWIS, Circuit Judge, and TRIEBER and BOOTH, District Judges.

¶7TRIEBER, District Judge.

¶8These appellees were jointly indicted with Isadora Luvisch, No. 6125 (C. C. A.) 287 Fed. 699, and on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus discharged by the judgment of the court below.

¶9The facts are identical with those in the Luvisch Case, and for the reasons stated in the opinion in that case, filed this day, the judgment is reversed.

¶10LEWIS, Circuit Judge, dissents. See Biddle v. Luvisch, 287 Fed. 699.

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