MINOR v. TINSLEY

No. 20818.

389 P.2d 850 (1964)

Sylvester Junior MINOR, Plaintiff in Error, v. Harry C. TINSLEY, Warden Colorado State Penitentiary, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

March 2, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvester Junior Minor, plaintiff in error, pro se.

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Thomas A. Nelson, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for defendant in error.


DAY, Justice.

We will refer to the plaintiff in error as petitioner, as he was in the trial court.

He filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Denver District Court, seeking release from custody of the warden of the state penitentiary at Canon City on the ground that he had completed his maximum sentence. There was set forth in detail in the petition the calculations petitioner claimed entitled him to his release. The court refused to issue the writ...

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