Spencer v. Kees
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the superior court for Walla Walla county, Brents, J., entered June 27, 1906, refusing to discharge a prisoner on habeás corpus proceedings.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
This appeal is from an order in habeas corpus, refusing to discharge the appellant from prison. On June 4, 1903, the appellant, having been convicted of murder in the second degree, was sentenced by the superior court for Spokane county to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of thirteen years. Pie was thereupon incarcerated in the penitentiary. On May 8, 1905,,the governor granted a conditional pardon which, after reciting the facts above stated, is as follows:
“Whereas, it has been represented to me by Dr. Yancy C. Blalock, physician at the said penitentiary, that the said Edward…
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