Harris v. Langlois

This is a petition for habeas corpus to determine the validity of the order of February 18, 1963 of the superior court committing the petitioner to- the adult correctional institutions- to serve a ten-year sentence for rape. We issued the writ, the pertinent papers were certified to this court, and thereafter by leave of court the case was submitted on briefs without oral argument.

The- petitioner’s brief advances five reasons in support of his contention that the order of commitment is illegal and void. While the brief is signed by him pro se it bears all the earmarks of having been drafted…