Matter of Application of Stanton

The petitioner was committed to the state prison at San Quentin on February 5, 1896, under a sentence of twenty-five years for murder of the second degree. Under the statute providing for credits to prisoners upon the time of their sentence, allowed for good behavior, the petitioner, if allowed the statutory credits, would have been entitled to his release on May 5,1911. The prison authorities are holding him in custody upon ttie claim that by reason of his misconduct he has forfeited his credits, and that such forfeiture has been declared by the., order of the board duly and regularly made.

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