EVANS v. WILKERSON

No. 79-1052.

605 F.2d 369 (1979)

James Edward EVANS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. G. C. WILKERSON, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 6, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. John Pleban, St. Louis, Mo., for petitioner-appellant.

James R. Burgess, Jr., U. S. Atty., Robert L. Simpkins, Asst. U. S. Atty., East St. Louis, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before TONE and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and WILL, Senior District Judge.


WILL, Senior District Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

The undisputed facts are that on July 25, 1969, appellant was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment upon his plea of guilty to violating Sections 2113(a) and (d) of Title 18, United States Code. His sentence began to run in May 1969. In May 1976, appellant was transferred to Magdala Halfway House (Halfway House) in St. Louis, Missouri. At the time of...

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