COMERFORD v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION


335 Mass. 714 (1957)

141 N.E.2d 893

JOHN G. COMERFORD vs. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 18, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Comerford, pro se.

Arnold H. Salisbury, Assistant Attorney General, (Fred L. True, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with him,) for the respondent.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, & WHITTEMORE, JJ.


WILLIAMS, J.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to restrain the commissioner of correction from applying the provisions of St. 1955, c. 770, § 121A, in computing the date when the petitioner is entitled to be discharged from Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, formerly called the State prison, and to order the commissioner to issue to the petitioner a certificate of discharge.

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