Layman v. Hudspeth

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

In this habeas corpus case counsel for the petitioner and for the respondent agree upon the following facts which the record discloses. On June 16, 1934, the petitioner appeared in court after his plea of guilty to the offense of grand larceny and was sentenced to be confined in the state penitentiary at Lansing, at hard labor for a period of not less than five and not more than fifteen years and to pay the costs of his prosecution. There is no controversy about the validity of that judgment. The petitioner was not taken to the penitentiary…