STATE EX REL. YORK v. COCHRAN

No. 30835.

127 So.2d 885 (1961)

STATE of Florida ex rel. Arthur YORK, Petitioner, v. H.G. COCHRAN, Jr., as Director, Division of Corrections, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 12, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adams & Henderson, Crestview, for petitioner.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and George R. Georgieff, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

This Court issued its writ of habeas corpus upon the petition of Arthur York and the respondent, H.G. Cochran, Jr., Director, Division of Corrections, has filed his response thereto.

Petitioner's contention was that he was being illegally detained pursuant to a twenty-year sentence entered against him on May 21, 1957 for the offense of "breaking and entering." Petitioner alleged that in this state there is no offense entitled "breaking and entering...

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