Dowd, Warden v. Stuckey

The appellee, a prisoner in the Indiana State Prison, was released and discharged from custody of the warden in a habeas corpus proceeding. The trial court held the warden’s return insufficient, and the correctness of this ruling presents the only question.

It appears from the return that in February, 1938, when the appellee was less than thirty years of age, he was sentenced to the Indiana State Reformatory for a period of from one to five years upon conviction of the crime of petit larceny. In September, 1940, he was paroled. In August, 1941, while on parole, and when he had attained the age…