Haynes v. Robbins

On report on agreed statement of facts. This is a procedure in habeas corpus. The petitioner is serving a sentence in the Maine State Prison of not less than 2% years nor more than 5 years. This sentence was imposed upon him as a result of having been convicted on an indictment charging the crime of threatening by oral communication to injure the persons and property of others. The statute upon which the prosecution was based is Sec. 27, Chap. 130, R. S., 1954, and reads as follows:

“Threatening communication. — Whoever makes, publishes or sends to another any communication, written or oral,…