GAVIN v. LANGLOIS

M.P. No. 1359

167 A.2d 747 (1961)

George Marion GAVIN v. Harold V. LANGLOIS, Jr., Warden.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

February 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph G. LeCount, Thomas H. Brown, for petitioner.

J. Joseph Nugent, Attorney General. Edward F.J. Dwyer, Assistant Attorney General, for State.


ROBERTS, Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought by the petitioner to obtain his discharge from the allegedly unlawful custody of the respondent warden. The petitioner has been held in custody by the respondent pursuant to a sentence of thirty years imposed on June 10, 1955 by a justice of the superior court in the case of State v. George Marion Gavin, Indictment No. 25287.

In that indictment the defendant George Marion Gavin, hereinafter...

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