Tahash v. Clements

On a hearing on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, in the Madison Circuit Court, the ap-pellee was discharged from custody of appellant, Superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory.

The facts, as stipulated, were as follows: The petitioner (appellee herein) was committed to the Indiana Reformatory, for second degree burglary, for a period of two years, by a judgment of the Boone Circuit Court, on August 5, 1952. On September 19, 1952, the trial court purported to correct the commitment, providing for an indeterminate sentence of two to five years. No *199notice was given the petitioner…