Neal v. Hines

Opinion op the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Comissioner

Affirming.

The question on this appeal is whether a prisoner, who was convicted of murder in the year 1911 and sentenced to life imprisonment and who has served five years and has obeyed all the rules and regulations of the institution in which he is confined, is entitled to a-parole as a matter of right which he may enforce by writ of mandamus against the Board of Prison Commissioners.

The case arises in the following way: Plaintiff, Tom Neal, was indicted by the grand jury of Whitley county for the crime of murder committed in the month…