Wyback v. Board of Prison Terms & Paroles

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court for Walla Walla county denying a petition for an alternative writ of mandamus. From the petition, it appears that the relator was convicted on September 4,1940, in Clark county, of the crime of burglary in the second degree and sentenced to serve a maximum term of fifteen years in the Washington state penitentiary at Walla Walla. It appears that on March 7, 1941, the board of prison terms and paroles, hereinafter called the board, fixed the duration of relator’s confinement at ten years.

The relator escaped from the honor camp at Centralia…