People Ex Rel. Thompson v. Nierstheimer

Per Curiam :

Coy Thompson has presented to this court a motion for leave to file an original petition for writ of habeas corpus.

Petitioner was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county on June 6, 1931, of the crime of murder, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of 100 years. To review that judgment he brought the record to this court at the November term, 1942, by writ of error. There he complained the sentence of one hundred years in the penitentiary was illegal as it would deprive him of the benefit of the laws relative to probation and parole. The opinion of…