State Ex Rel. Stewart v. Blair

This is an original proceeding in certiorari to review the record of a habeas corpus case of Ervin Galloway v. Ben B. Stewart, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary, tried in the circuit court of Cole County, Missouri. That court found that Galloway, hereafter referred to as the petitioner, was unlawfully convicted under the habitual criminal act for the reason that he had not been discharged from his former sentence by pardon or compliance with that sentence, and that, therefore, his sentence is erroneous as to time. The petitioner was thereupon sentenced to a term of fourteen years and three…