Green v. State

DUFRESNE, Justice.

On report. The following facts are admitted. At the May term 1949 of the Superior Court in Knox County in this State, the petitioner (Green) was convicted of larceny of an automobile valued at $200.00, a crime punishable by imprisonment in the State Prison, and in addition thereto was charged and adjudged to having been before convicted of the crime of robbery and sentenced thereon by a court of this State to Maine State Prison. By reason of the “habitual criminal” statute, so-called, (R.S. 1954, c. 149, § 3, now as amended 15 M.R. S.A. § 1742), he was sentenced as a…