Lindsley v. Board of Managers of New Jersey State Prison

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

The relator, John O. Lindsley, on June 26th, 1917, entered a plea of “nolo contendere” to an indictment for a murder committed on June 9th, 1917, and received a sentence of “life imprisonment in the state prison.” It is stipulated that “on July 1st, 1928, the said relator had served in said prison, by virtue of said sentence and judgment, a term of fifteen years less earned commutation thereof,” and that at a meeting of the board of managers of the state prison held in the month of December, 1928, the principal keeper of the state prison…