Fredericks v. Gladden

McAllister, j.

This is an appeal by plaintiff, George Fredericks, from an order of the circuit court of Marion county dismissing a habeas corpus proceeding brought by plaintiff to obtain his release from the state penitentiary. On November 29, 1945, plaintiff entered the state penitentiary to serve a sentence of 15 years for the crime of assault with intent to rob and remained therein until he was released on November 29, 1955, under the following circumstances.

On November 1, 1955, the defendant, Clarence T. Gladden, warden of the penitentiary, wrote a letter to *686Governor Paul Patterson, the…