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This petition for a writ of habeas corpus is before us on the report of a judge of the Superior Court for a determination by this court on a stipulation of material facts and on eleven authenticated documents which are agreed to be parts of the record. The petitioner was sentenced to M.C.I., Walpole, following his conviction on charges of indecent assault and battery on a child under fourteen, unnatural acts, and sodomy. The offenses involved an eight-year old boy and a thirteen-yéar old girl. In 1967 he had been committed to a California State hospital as a “mentally disordered sex offender”…