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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Richard P. BERGERON, Appellant, v. Maurice, H. SIGLER (As Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary), Appellee.
    No. 16150.
    United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
    Jan. 25, 1957.
    Richard P. Bergeron, in pro. per.
    M. E. Culligan, Atty., Dept, of Justice for State of Louisiana, New Orleans, La., for appellee.
    Before RIVES, TUTTLE BROWN, Circuit Judges. and
   PER CURIAM.

Being of opinion that the petition for habeas corpus was pijoperly denied for the reasons stated in of the district court, affirmed. the minute entry the judgment is

Affirmed. 
      
      . “The petitioner has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging that he is unlawfully in state custody in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. He alleges that he was convicted and sentenced for attempted aggravated rape on one occasion in the state court and that he was convicted and sentenced for armed robbery on another, and that the court in sentencing him on the latter occasion did not indicate whether or not sentence imposed at that time was to run concurrently with, or consecutive to, the sentence imposed under the aggravated rape charge, and that therefore, under the law, the sentences were to run concurrently. He further alleges that he has served the maximum time under the sentences if concurrent, and that applications fop writ of habeas corpus in state district court, state supreme court, and application for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States have all been denied. He asks this Court to grant a writ of habeas corpus for the reason that the sentences were concurrent, that he has served the maximum time under them, that he has exhausted his state.remedies, and that he is entitled to freedom.
      “It Is Ordered that plaintiff’s petition to proceed in forma pauperis is granted.
      “It Is Further Ordered that plaintiff’s petition for writ of habeas corpus be and the same is hereby denied.
      “Reasons
      “It appears from th the writ that the applje tied thereto. 28 U.S. question whether his se: current or consecutive state law which has bee¿ ly to petitioner by the Louisiana. Bergeron v. Supreme Court of La .1955, 28 U.S.C. § 2241 ( application for ant is not enti2243. The 4itences were con-is a matter of decided adverse-supreme Court of Sigler, Warden, November 16, c).
      “ (Initii led) J. S. W.”