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Toyd D. HYATT, Appellant, v. Ray L. HUFF, General Superintendent, D. C. Reformatory, Appellee.
    No. 8779.
    United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia.
    Argued Not. 15, 1944.
    Decided Dec. 29, 1944.
    Mr. Arthur L. Willcher, of Washington, D. C. (appointed by this court), for- appellant.
    Mr. Charles B. Murray, Assistant United States Attorney, of Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Edward M. Curran, United States Attorney, of Washington, D. G, was on the brief, for appellee.
    Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and EDGERTON and ARNOLD, Associate Justices.
   PER CURIAM.

Petition for habeas corpus was filed in March, 1944. The District Judge promptly and properly entered an order to show cause, to which a return was duly filed. The court on consideration of the return discharged the rule and denied the petition. An appeal to this court followed and on the call of the case the United States Attorney, appearing for the respondent, confessed error and requested that the case be remanded for hearing on the petition and return.

We have examined the record and are of opinion the dismissal below, without hearing, was error. Accordingly the judgment below is reversed and the cause remanded to the District Court for hearing.

Reversed and remanded.