People Ex Rel. Lowe v. Ragen

The petitioner, Clarence Lowe, seeks a release on habeas corpus, from the Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville. He was convicted and sentenced by the criminal court of Cook county on November 28, 1924, to serve from one to twenty years in the Pontiac reformatory commencing in December of that year. He was released on an intrastate parole, effective October, 1927. He went to Chicago where his parole was to be fulfilled. He was arrested as a parole violator in 1930 and turned over to the officers of Sacramento, California, where he was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve from one to fourteen…