People Ex Rel. Carlstrom v. Shurtleff

This was an original proceeding in mandamus. By leave of court a petition was filed in the name of the People, upon the relation of the Attorney General and the State’s attorney of Cook county, for a writ of mandamus commanding the respondent, Edward D. Shurtleff, judge of the circuit court of McHenry county, to expunge from the records of that court an order entered by him on July 16, 1932, releasing and discharging James Sammons from the penitentiary at Joliet. This order was entered by the respondent pursuant to a petition for the writ of habeas corpus filed in the McHenry county circuit…