Jones v. Robbins
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The facts of the case, which was argued in the last vacation, by F. W. Hurd, for the petitioner, and G. W. Cooley, (County Attorney,) for the respondent, appear in the opinion of the majority of the court, as delivered by
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, C. J.
The petitioner sets forth that he is a prisoner in the house of correction in the city of Boston, upon a mittimus or warrant, issued by the police court of the city, under a conviction in that court, and a sentence thereon to an imprisonment at hard labor in the house of correction for the term of six months.
It appears by the complaint and conviction thereon, upon a plea of guilty, that he was charged and convicted of stealing in a building, to wit, in the shop of one Horace Mecum, one gold ring, of the value of fourteen dollars, of the goods and chattels of said Mecum.
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