The State, in two consolidated appeals, challenges the delivery from custody of two prisoners whose applications for habeas corpus were granted by the Superior Court.
The single issue before us is whether the proscription, by Const. art. 1, § 14, of cruel punishment prohibits incarceration beyond the present maximum sentence of a prisoner sentenced under a repealed statute which provided for longer...
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