Beal v. Mayo

SEBRING, Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding wherein petitioner, Robert Beal, claims that he is being unlawfully deprived of his liberty because the Board of Pardons of the State of Florida was without jurisdiction to enter that .certain order dated June 10, 1953, by authority of which he was reincarcerated.

In January, 1931, the petitioner received sentences in the Criminal'Court of Record for Hillsborough County, totaling fifteen years,..for breaking and entering- and larceny. On April.. 10, ,1935, the State Board of Pardons released him by an order providing as follows: “That the…