IN RE MEARS

No. 1976.

198 A.2d 27 (1964)

In re Donald Ernest MEARS.

Supreme Court of Vermont. Washington.

February 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene V. Clark, Bennington, for plaintiff.

R. Marshall Witten, State's Atty., Bennington, for defendant.

Before HOLDEN, C. J., and SHANGRAW, BARNEY, SMITH, and SYLVESTER, JJ.


SHANGRAW, Justice.

This is a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner, Donald Harold Mears, seeks to test the legality of the confinement in the House of Correction at Windsor, Vermont, of his minor son, Donald Ernest Mears. The following facts set forth in the petition are not in dispute.

The son, Donald Ernest Mears, a minor, was born on December 25, 1943. On December 2, 1963, he was arraigned before the Bennington Municipal Court at Bennington, Vermont, on...

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