Morton v. Steele, 15156.
Decision Date | 06 December 1954 |
Docket Number | No. 15156.,15156. |
Parties | John W. MORTON, Appellant, v. Ivan W. STEELE, Warden, United States Medical Center, Springfield, Missouri, Appellee. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eighth Circuit |
John W. Morton pro se.
Edward L. Scheufler, U. S. Atty., and Paul R. Shy, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for appellee.
Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia on December 17, 1943, sentenced John W. Morton to the custody of the Attorney General for imprisonment for the period of fifteen years to life, Morton having been convicted by a jury of second degree murder. He appealed from his conviction, and on January 22, 1945, his sentence was affirmed. Morton v. United States, 79 U.S. App.D.C. 329, 147 F.2d 28.
Morton was at first confined in the District of Columbia Reformatory at Lorton, Virginia. On April 19, 1948, he was ordered transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, Missouri. He has been an inmate of that institution for more than six years.
Morton on July 6, 1954, filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He asserted, in substance, (1) that his transfer to the Medical Center was unauthorized, and (2) that the respondent, Warden of the Medical Center, in making return to the petition was required to furnish certain papers relating to Morton's trial, including "indication of plea of defendant * * *," and that: Under the subtitle "Complaint", the petition reads as follows:
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