Legal Opinion

In re Smith

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided May 10, 1950PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMerrill, J.

Carl G. Smith, the petitioner, was convicted in the Superior Court for our County of Cumberland at the May 1949 Term thereof, upon an indictment to which he pleaded guilty. Said indictment charged him with an escape *175from the Cumberland county jail where he was being held for the grand jury in default of bail on a charge of felony. At said May Term, to wit, on the tenth day of May, A. D., 1949, he was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for not less than three and one-half years and not more than seven years, said sentence to be executed upon him within the precincts of our state prison at…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Price v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
  2. Schwab v. BerggrenSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  3. Cole v. ColeSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1914

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. State v. HealdSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1978
  2. Westberry v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1969
  3. Gilday v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
  4. Ex Parte SmithSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1950

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