Johnson v. Haynes

DIXON, Chief Judge.

On a verified petition which alleged that petitioner had fully served a sentence imposed on him and was, therefore, entitled to immediate release, we issued our writ of habeas corpus. We now conclude that on the entire record, the writ was improvidently issued and should be quashed.

This court has accumulated a gargantuan file of correspondence from the petitioner, the public defender, and the Attorney General’s office, but the pleadings of both petitioner and of the State are inadequate for the necessity of the case.

Shorn of the confusion engendered by the pleadings,…