In re Mason
Michigan Supreme Court
Habeas Corpus. The petition set forth that petitioner on August 27th, 1859, was convicted in the Recorder’s Court of Detroit, of larceny in a dwelling house, and sentenced to the House of Correction (now State Reform School) until he should arrive at the age of twenty-one years; that he was taken to said House of Correction in pursuance of said sentence, and remained there until March 10th, 1860; that on March 7th, 1860, the prosecuting attorney of Wayne filed an application…
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Habeas Corpus. The petition set forth that petitioner on August 27th, 1859, was convicted in the Recorder’s Court of Detroit, of larceny in a dwelling house, and sentenced to the House of Correction (now State Reform School) until he should arrive at the age of twenty-one years; that he was taken to said House of Correction in pursuance of said sentence, and remained there until March 10th, 1860; that on March 7th, 1860, the prosecuting attorney of Wayne filed an application in said Recorder’s court, setting forth the said conviction and sentence, and further setting forth, that at the time…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.:
A habeas corpus having been issued to the sheriff of Wayne county, to inquire into the cause of detention of the relator, it appears that in August, 1859, he was sentenced to the State Reform School, as under sixteen years of age, and that the Recorder of Detroit, who sentenced him, has recently issued a precept or writ, of a somewhat anomalous character, whereby he has been brought back from that"’ institution, and is now in the hands of the sheriff of Wayne county.
The relator now claims, that his imprisonment in the Wayne county jail is illegal, and that he was in fact more than…
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