In re Application of Edwards

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

The return to the writ of habeas corpus shows that George W. Edwards was convicted in the Middle-sex Oyer and Terminer of breaking and entering, and sentenced December 27th, 1871, to be confined in the state’s prison of this state, at hard labor, for the term of ten years; that on the same day he was delivered into the custody of the keeper of said prison, and escaped therefrom on the 4th day of September, 1872; that he remained at large until January 9th, 1880, at which date he was returned to the custody of the keeper, and has since…