WOJCULEWICZ v. CUMMINGS


143 Conn. 624 (1956)

FRANK WOJCULEWICZ v. GEORGE A. CUMMINGS, WARDEN OF CONNECTICUT STATE PRISON

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided July 17, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reinhart L. Gideon, special public defender, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Albert S. Bill, state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, was Douglass B. Wright, assistant state's attorney, for the appellee (defendant).

BALDWIN, O'SULLIVAN, WYNNE, DALY and COMLEY, JS.


O'SULLIVAN, J.

This action was instituted by the plaintiff to obtain a writ of habeas corpus directed against the warden of the state prison. The court issued the writ but subsequently dismissed it, and from the judgment rendered the plaintiff has appealed.

In his return, the warden alleged that he was holding the plaintiff by virtue of a mittimus wherein it was recited that the plaintiff had been indicted by a grand jury for murder in the first degree on...

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