Rupp v. Walker

The petitioner, Harold Rnpp, was sentenced to serve a term in the state prison of 7 to 10 years for robbery, beginning on the 12th day of April, 19.39. Claiming he had served the maximum sentence for said crime, on September 12, 1944, he filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus before the Honorable W. C. Truman, Judge of the Superior Court of Pinal County, praying for a judgment of the court restoring him to his freedom. The superintendent of the prison answered the petition by alleging that the time of the petitioner’s sentence had not expired. At a hearing the writ was quashed, the…