State ex rel. Davis v. Hunter
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Jones District Court.-— Hon. B. H. Miller, J udge. This is an appeal by defendant, Hunter, as warden of ibe penitentiary at Anamosa, from an order made in a habeas ■corpus proceeding discharging Frank Davis from further imprisonment in said penitentiary under commitment on conviction for the crime of murder in the second degree, and a •sentence of seventeen years’ imprisonment at hard labor.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
After the applicant for this writ of habeas corpus had served more than nine years of his seventeen years’ sentence, and when, under the provisions- of the statute as to diminution of sentence for good conduct' (Code, -section 5Y03, which is a substantial re-enactment of-the provisions of Acts 18th General Assembly, chapter 154,'. sectioii *5701, which was in force when the applicant Was committed), he would have been entitled to his discharge on serving for a further period of sixty-three- days without any misconduct, authorizing a forfeiture of the good time which he had earned, or would be…
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