IN RE APPLICATION OF COOLEY


12 N.J. Super. 97 (1951)

79 A.2d 98

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JAMES E. COOLEY FOR ISSUANCE OF WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Mercer County Court Law Division.

Decided February 21, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Donald R. Bryant, Jr., attorney for the petitioner, in forma pauperis.

Mr. Theodore D. Parsons, Attorney General of the State of New Jersey (Mr. Eugene T. Urbaniak, Deputy Attorney General, appearing), attorney for the State.


HUGHES, J.C.C.

On the basis of a petition alleging his unlawful imprisonment by the Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison, the writ of habeas corpus was issued to James E. Cooley under the authority of R.S. 2:82-1 et seq. By the return to the writ, the State predicates its detention of petitioner on a commitment of the former Camden County Court of Quarter Sessions, evidencing that on December 2, 1941, that court imposed on petitioner...

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