COMPTON, Chief Justice.
While under sentence to serve a term in the state penitentiary, the appellee escaped custody and for the offense he was sentenced to a term in the New Mexico State Penitentiary of "not less than two years," the sentence to run consecutively with the sentence he then was serving.
Subsequently, on November 14, 1962, this action, a proceeding by mandamus, was instituted against the warden to compel the petitioner's release from prison...
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