Alessio v. Howard

This is a petition for habeas corpus wherein the petitioner seeks his release from the Adult Correctional Institutions where he is being held after a justice of the Superior Court had found that the petitioner had violated the terms of a deferred sentence agreement.

The petition contains the following pertinent allegations. On October 21, 1965, petitioner appeared before the Washington County Superior Court, waived grand jury action, and pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of “breaking and entering in the night time with the intent to commit larceny.” The matter was then continued for sentence…