People Ex Rel. Pring v. Robinson

Petitioner, Martin Pring, has filed in this court his original petition for habeas corpus against Browning Robinson, warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Menard, Illinois, claiming he is illegally detained in said penitentiary by some act, omission, or event which has taken place subsequent to the imprisonment, which was originally lawful. The People, through the Attorney General, have filed their return traversing the legal effect of the petition.

The material facts set out in the petition show that in the year 1928, the petitioner, who was then eighteen years of age, pleaded guilty…