In Re McMahon
Supreme Court of North Carolina
PetitxoN of John S. McMahon, a prisoner in State prison, for writ of habeas corpus, preferreed to Hon . W. A. Mont-flOMiEX, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
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PetitxoN of John S. McMahon, a prisoner in State prison, for writ of habeas corpus, preferreed to Hon . W. A. Mont-flOMiEX, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Writ awarded directed to the penitentiary authorities, and case heard before his Honor at Chambers on September 7, 1899. Upon the hearing, after argument on both sides, his Honor adjudged that the petitioner was not then entitled to his discharge, and remanded him into custody.' From this judgment the petitioner appealed to the Supreme Court. The grounds of the application for discharge are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtEubohes, J.
The petitioner was convicted of murder at June Term, 1889, of Macon Superior Court and sentenced to be hanged, and the sentence was commuted by the Governor to imprisonment for life. The prisoner was received in the penitentiary on the 8th day of June, 1889, under this commuted sentence, where he has been confined ever since that-time; that on the loth day of August, 1899, his sentence was further commuted by the Governor to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of twelve years, and he would be entitled to his discharge at the end of twelve years from the date of his imprisonment,…
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