State Ex Rel. McCoske v. Kinnear

French,: J.

This is an application for a writ of certiorari by which petitioner, a prisoner in the state penitentiary, seeks to review the action of the parole board in its refusal to allow good conduct credits on his minimum sentence, 'thus making him eligible for parole before the full term of his minimum sentence has been served.

The good conduct credits to persons in the state penitentiary are granted by reason of the legislative act found in ch. 29, Laws of 1887-8, p. 55, and afterwards reenacted in ch. 147, p. 353, Laws of’ 1891, the same being § 10223, Rem. Comp. Stat., which provides:

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