State Board of Charities & Corrections v. Combs

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hurt

Reversing.

The appellee, Kilos Combs, was convicted of felonious housebreaking, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State Reformatory at Frankfort, Ky., for a term of two years. He was committed to the institution on the 24th day of March, 1920, to undergo the sentence imposed upon him. On the 29th day of September, 1921, insisting that under the provisions of section 1136a, Kentucky Statutes, and in accordance with a proper administration of the law provided by such statute, that he was entitled to bo discharged from the institution on the 26th day of…