Fisher v. Hollowell

Vermilion, J. —

The appellant sued out a writ of habeas corpus in the district court. The defendant and appellee is the warden of the state penitentiary. The petition alleged, that the petitioner had been sentenced by the district court of Shelby County to imprisonment in the state reformatory for an indeterminate period not exceeding five years, for the crime of grand larceny; that he was imprisoned under that sentence from November 13, 1915, till December 5, 1916, at which time he escaped; that, after being at large for nearly three years, he was apprehended and returned to the reformatory…