People ex rel. Quigley v. Marsden

This is the return of a writ of habeas corpus. Eelator, by a commitment issued by a judge of Children’s Court of Delaware County, dated November 6, 1946, was committed to the care and custody of the defendant, Superintendent of the Onondaga County Penitentiary, for a term not exceeding three months. Upon the return of the writ, relator had already served forty-two days. The commitment is attacked *38as defective in that it is for an indefinite term and is ineffectual to continue the prisoner in custody any length of time; that the superintendent, thereby, might properly discharge the prisoner…