Broom v. Alexander

The plaintiff filed in the Circuit Court of Marion County a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking his discharge from the penitentiary. The defendants were the superintendent and warden, respectively, of that institution. A return was filed on 1 December 1952. It certified that the plaintiff was in custody

“under and by virtue of a sentence issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon in and for the County of Poll? in the ease entitled ‘The State of Oregon v. Martin Caswell Broom’ on January 11, 1943, to serve the term of his natural life in the Oregon state penitentiary for…