People Ex Rel. Cecere v. Jennings

Appellant was convicted on July 6, 1917, of the crime of robbery, and sentenced to imprisonment for a minimum term of five years and a maximum of twenty. On December 8, 1919, the term was commuted by the Governor to a minimum of two years, five months and nine days, and the same maximum as before. The commutation was upon the condition that if the prisoner should be thereafter convicted of any felony committed between the date of his discharge and the date of the expiration of the full time thereby commuted, he should be deemed an escaped convict in respect of the commuted term, and in…