Detrich Clark Shoemaker v. Dowd, Warden

Each of the above entitled cases is an appeal from a judgment of the LaPorte Circuit Court sustaining a motion to quash a writ of habeas corpus and dismissing the petition for the writ.

Each of the appellants had been convicted of bank robbery by a jury in a circuit court other than the LaPorte Circuit Court. The jury in each of the verdicts failed to fix the amount of the punishment to be imposed. In the judgments the punishment was fixed by the court at life imprisonment in the Clark and Detrich cases and at fifty years in the Shoemaker case. There was no appeal. Each of the appellants has…