Beaty v. Shute

— This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Pinal County, denying the petition of Lawrence Beaty, hereinafter called petitioner, for a writ of habeas corpus. The appeal must he determined upon the construction of sections 5318 and 5319, Revised Code of 1928, which read as follows :

“§5318. Labor by convicts; deduction from sentence. The board shall require of every able-bodied convict as many hours of faithful labor in each day, during his term of imprisonment, as shall be prescribed in the rules of the prison, and every convict faithfully performing such labor and being in…