Nissenbaum v. State

At the April, 1937, term of the Superior Court, within and for the County of Penobscot, one Louis Nissenbaum was indicted for receiving goods which, to the knowledge of the accused, had been feloniously stolen. On arraignment, he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to state’s prison for not less, as a minimum term, than one year, nor longer, in maximum, than one and one-half years. The convict was committed in execution of sentence.

In vacation, next after the term of court at which he had been sentenced, Nissenbaum brought a writ of error, returnable to that court’s September Term, to obtain a…