People ex rel. Patterson v. District Court

This is an original proceeding instituted by one Patterson, the warden of the state penitentiary, whereby he as the relator sought the issuance of a rule directing the respondents to show cause, if such they had, why a certain order entered by the respondent judge releasing one Alexander Griffin from the state penitentiary should not be vacated and held for naught. We ordered that such rule issue and, the respondents having now filed their response thereto, the matter awaits our determination.

The present controversy emerges out of the following series of events:

1. on December 5, 1962…