In re Kness

I. A. Kness alleges that he is unlawfully held in the State Penitentiary, and he petitions for a discharge. He was convicted in the District Court of Phillips County upon a charge of grand larceny, and the judgment was imprisonment at hard labor for a term of five years, commencing September 12, 1893. Pie claims that, under the statute and on account of good behavior as a prisoner while serving his sentence, he is entitled to a commutation of time, and that a credit of the good time so earned entitled him to a discharge from prison on September 6, 1897. The Warden of the Penitentiary responds…