IN RE PALMER

Calendar No. 97, Docket No. 50,044.

371 Mich. 656 (1963)

124 N.W.2d 773

In re PALMER.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Discharged December 2, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Palmer, in propria persona.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, James R. Ramsey and Donald T. Kane, Assistant Attorneys General, for the people.

Amici curiae:

State Bar of Michigan Committee on Civil Liberties, by William H. Culver, Chairman, Justin L. Brocato, Avern L. Cohn and Rolland R. O'Hare, of counsel.

State Bar of Michigan Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, by Leo A. Farhat, Chairman, and Samuel J. Torina.


Petitioner discharged from imposed sentence December 2, 1963, and remanded to sheriff of Macomb county for further proceedings.

KAVANAGH, J.

By grant of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and ancillary writ of certiorari we here review the proceedings of December 1, 1942, which resulted in the sentencing of petitioner by the Macomb county circuit court to life imprisonment for second-degree murder.1

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