State Ex Rel. Pett v. Jackson

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

Upon the petition of respondent, Robert Farrington Pett, a writ of habeas corpus was issued by the District Court of Sherburne County on December 13, 1957. In response thereto on December 27, 1957, Carl J. Jackson, superintendent of St. Cloud Reformatory, hereinafter referred to as appellant, to whom it was directed, filed his return and produced respondent in said court, at which time a hearing on the petition was held.

It is respondent’s claim that he is unlawfully imprisoned in the state reformatory for men at St. Cloud in that at a time when he was 17 years of age…