Legal Opinion
Bishop v. Langlois
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided July 16, 1969No. 554-M.PPublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRoberts, C. J.
This petition for habeas corpus was brought to obtain the discharge of the petitioner from the allegedly unlawful custody of the respondent warden. The petitioner has been in the respondent’s custody since March 11, 1968, at which time a justice of the superior court sentenced the petitioner to a term of five years for violation of a deferred sentence.
Alfred J. Bishop, hereinafter referred to as petitioner, on June 13, 1963, pleaded nolo contendere to indictment No. 2106, charging him with breaking and entering, and on June 28, 1963, was sentenced to a term of one year at the adult…
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