Legal Opinion
In Re Mears
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided February 10, 1964No. 1976PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtShangraw, J.
This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner, Donald Harold Mears, seeks to test the legality of the confinement in the House of Correction at Windsor, Vermont, of his minor son, Donald Ernest Mears. The following facts set forth in the petition are not in dispute.
The son, Donald Ernest Mears, a minor, was born on December 25, 1943. On December 2, 1963, he was arraigned before the *133Bennington Municipal Court at Bennington, Vermont, on two informations and warrants, both dated November 2, 1963. The first, bearing docket No. 30061, charged him, in count one thereof, with the…
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