Commonwealth v. Crawford

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Fulton

Affirming.

Roscoe Crawford, a sixteen, year old boy, was convicted of the crime of housebreaking in the Whitley Circuit Court and his punishment was, by the verdict of the jury, fixed at one year in the penitentiary. He was sentenced to one year’s confinement in the House of Reform at G-reendale in Fayette County and was received in that institution on October 28, 1939. After serving the one-year term fixed by the Whitley Circuit Court, he was granted a writ of habeas corpus by the Fayette Circuit Court and ordered discharged, but the execution of the…