Messamore v. Wingo

CLAY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying appellant release, from the penitentiary on a habeas corpus petition. Appellant’s contention is that the Commonwealth had lost jurisdiction to recommit him to prison as a parole violator.

In 1938 appellant was convicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court of the crime of armed robbery and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1947 he was paroled.

In 1949 he was apprehended in Kentucky on an Indiana warrant. He was extradited to Indiana and not long thereafter escaped from an Indiana jail. He was later apprehended in Kentucky on a federal…