State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Hershman

Ronald Johnson has petitioned this court for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground he became eighteen years of age on March 11, 1972, and therefore under ch. 213, Laws of 1971, he should be discharged from the custody of the respondent Roland C. Hershman, Superintendent of the Wisconsin School for Boys at Wales, Wisconsin.

Johnson was found delinquent on November 24, 1967, and custody was given to the department of health & social services and he is now confined at Wales. Ch. 213, Laws of 1971, became effective on March 23, 1972, and in effect substituted age eighteen for age twenty-one in…