STATE EX REL. PETT v. JACKSON

No. 37,493.

252 Minn. 418 (1958)

90 N.W. (2d) 219

STATE EX REL. ROBERT FARRINGTON PETT v. CARL J. JACKSON.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

May 16, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miles Lord, Attorney General, Charles E. Houston, Solicitor General, and John R. Murphy, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Daniel S. Feidt and Robert I. Lang, for respondent.

Russell L. Frazee, Einer C. Iverson, and Bruce C. Stone, for Minnesota County Attorneys' Association, amicus curiae.


THOMAS GALLAGHER, JUSTICE.

Upon the petition of respondent, Robert Farrington Pett, a writ of habeas corpus was issued by the District Court of Sherburne County on December 13, 1957. In response thereto on December 27, 1957, Carl J. Jackson, superintendent of St. Cloud Reformatory, hereinafter referred to as appellant, to whom it was directed, filed his return and produced respondent in said court, at which time a hearing on the petition was held.

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