Lee v. Langlois

DAY, District Judge.

This is another of a succession of petitions for a writ of habeas corpus by John H. Lee, a prisoner confined in the Rhode Island adult correctional institutions under sentence imposed by the Superior Court of the State of Rhode Island on March 17, 1950. This sentence was for a term of seven years “from and after the expiration of a sentence” of 20 years which petitioner was then serving.

The petition alleges in substance the following: that on August 1, 1933, following his conviction on a charge of criminal abortion resulting in death the petitioner was sentenced to serve…