Dutton v. Langlois

The petitioner in this habeas corpus proceeding challenges the legality of his detention under a seven-year sentence imposed by a superior court justice upon his plea of nolo contendere to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. The arraignment on that charge followed the nol pressing 1 of an indictment charging an assault with intent to murder. Although he did not urge it when sentence was imposed, the petitioner now claims that jurisdiction to proceed further in the case was lost by the superior court and attached to the family court when, upon his arraignment on the charge of assault…