Allen Gailes and James B. Faison v. Howard D. Yeager, Warden of the New Jersey State Prison, and the State of New Jersey, Allen Gailes

Petitioner Gailes, who is the sole appellant, on October 24, 1958 pleaded guilty to a series of accusations of offenses committed on August 8, 1958. These comprised two accusations for larceny, one .accusation for malicious mischief, one accusation for breaking, entering and larceny, two accusations for armed robbery and one accusation for atrocious assault and battery while armed. On November 21, 1958, he was sentenced to prison for these crimes with the sentences, aggregating from 31 to 47 years, to run consecutively. Gailes is presently confined in the New Jersey State Prison at Trenfon,…