PEOPLE EX REL. JEFFERSON v. BRANTLEY

No. 42199.

44 Ill.2d 31 (1969)

253 N.E.2d 378

THE PEOPLE ex rel. Arthur Fillmore Jefferson, Appellant, v. ELZA BRANTLEY, Warden, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 26, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARTHUR FILLMORE JEFFERSON, pro se.

WILLIAM J. SCOTT, Attorney General, of Springfield, (FRED G. LEACH, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel,) for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE KLUCZYNSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal in a habeas corpus proceeding. On March 2, 1966, the relator, Arthur Fillmore Jefferson, was convicted of burglary and sentenced to the Illinois State Penitentiary for a term of not less than two nor more than ten years. He was subsequently paroled, and on February 20, 1968, was returned to Menard Penitentiary pursuant to an arrest warrant issued by the warden...

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