Legal Opinion
Rohrer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 10, 1967PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
Rohrer, by his petition filed in the County Court for a writ of habeas corpus, directed to the superintendent of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater, alleged that he was illegally confined there. Upon agreed facts the single justice reserved and reported the case without decision. The commitment was in fact made to the Bridgewater State Hospital (Bridgewater).
After a period of work at a carnival in Brockton, Rohrer, then using another name, started for Boston by bicycle to seek employment. He was arrested in Stoughton for vagrancy (G. L. c. 272, § 66) on July 4, 1963. At…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Baxstrom v. HeroldSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Simon v. CraftSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Opinion of the Justices to the Senate & the House of RepresentativesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1960
- DowdellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Barry v. HallCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
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3Cited by10 opinions
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