TAHASH, SUPT., ETC. v. CLEMENTS

No. 29,215.

234 Ind. 197 (1955)

125 N.E.2d 439

TAHASH, AS SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIANA REFORMATORY v. CLEMENTS.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed April 5, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, and Richard M. Givan, Deputy Attorney General, for appellant.

James C. Cooper, Public Defender, and Perry W. Cross, Deputy Public Defender, for appellee.


LEVINE, J.

On a hearing on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, in the Madison Circuit Court, the appellee was discharged from custody of appellant, Superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory.

The facts, as stipulated, were as follows: The petitioner (appellee herein) was committed to the Indiana Reformatory, for second degree burglary, for a period of two years, by a judgment of the Boone Circuit Court, on August 5, 1952. On September 19, 1952, the...

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