Conlon's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed March 19, 1888, for a writ of habeas corpus to the superintendent of the Massachusetts reformatory, representing that Michael Conlon, the petitioner, was unlawfully restrained of his liberty at the reformatory by such.superintendent. Hearing before Field, J., who dismissed the petition, and reported the case for the consideration of the full court, the report, so far as material, being as follows.
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Petition, filed March 19, 1888, for a writ of habeas corpus to the superintendent of the Massachusetts reformatory, representing that Michael Conlon, the petitioner, was unlawfully restrained of his liberty at the reformatory by such.superintendent. Hearing before Field, J., who dismissed the petition, and reported the case for the consideration of the full court, the report, so far as material, being as follows. The petitioner was sentenced and committed to the state prison at Concord on December 28, 1878, for a term of nine years, to expire on December 28, 1887. In December, 1884, the state…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
On December 28, 1878, the petitioner was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment in the state prison, the sentence expiring on December 28, 1887. On January 31, 1885, under the alleged authority of St. 1884, c. 255, § 14, he was re-, moved, with the consent of the Governor and Council, from the state prison then at Boston to the reformatory at Concord. At that date, his sentence, as shortened for good behavior, expired on July 23, 1886. Pub. Sts. c. 222, § 20. On December 24, 1885, he received a permit to be at liberty, under St. 1884, c. 255, § 33, issued with the approval of the Governor and…
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