Board of Prison Commissioners v. De Moss

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming on original and cross-appeal.

The appellee, John De Moss, an inmate of the penitentiary under the Indeterminate Sentence law, resulting from his conviction of a felony, by his petition filed in the Franklin Circuit Court against the appellants, Henry Lawrence, Daniel E. O’Sullivan and Milton Conley, as individuals, and also as members composing the State Board of Penitentiary Commissioners, asked in the first paragraph thereof that the court compel them by the writ of mandamus, to parole him; and in the second paragraph that it compel them to…