State ex rel. Bishop v. State Board of Corrections

Zane, C. J.:

TMs is an application for a writ, upon the information of the attorney general, prohibiting the defendants from paroling certain convicts serving terms in the state prison. It is alleged by the plaintiff that the defendants are about to release the prisoners named, in pursuance of the following sections of the revised statutes of this state: “The board shall have power to establish rules and regulations, under which any prisoner, who is now or hereafter may be imprisoned under a sentence other than for murder in the first or second degree, and who may have served a minimum term…