State v. Brant

This is a petition -by Donald R. Brant, one of the above defendants, hereafter called the petitioner, to adjudge the warden of the adult -correctional institutions, hereafter referred to as “ACI,” in contempt of a superior court mittimus on the authority of'which the petitioner was taken into custody 'by 'the warden. It was heard ¡by a justice of that court who, .after reviewing the evidence, entered a decree denying and dismissing the petition. The cause is 'before us on the petitioner’s appeal therefrom.

In Nelson v. Progressive Realty Corp., 81 R. I. 445, this court, acknowledging that…