In re Lewis

The return shows the petitioner is held by the warden of the State house of correction and reformatory at Ionia by virtue of a judgment of the circuit court for the county of Kalamazoo. The judgment entry recites that the prisoner has been “duly convicted of the crime of larceny from a store, as appears by the* record thereof,” and concludes .with a sentence to the State house of correction and reformatory at Ionia for a term of four years.

It is contended that the prisoner should be discharged for the reason that the commitment does not, on its face, show that the offense of which the…