In Re Cammarata

We allowed habeas corpus and the ancillary writ of certiorari to inquire into the legality of petitioner’s detention by the warden of the State prison of southern Michigan. On February 26, 1931, petitioner was sentenced by a judge of the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit, Michigan, to serve a prison term of 15 to 30 years upon conviction of robbery while armed. See People v. Cammarata, 257 Mich 60.

The record shows that on November 16,1936, Governor Fitzgerald commuted the sentence to read, “Six and one-half to 30 years less good time allow anee for deportation only.” It also appears…