Legal Opinion
Hamner v. State
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided October 26, 1966PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFRESNE, Justice.
This is an appeal from the dismissal on motion of a petition for the writ of habeas corpus under 14 M.R.S.A. §§ 5502-5508.
On July 30, 1963, the petitioner, Richard A. Hamner, then a juvenile of the age of 16 years, was adjudicated to have committed a juvenile offense on a petition charging him with the larceny of an automobile valued at more than one hundred dollars. The Judge of the juvenile court sentenced him to the Reformatory for Men under 15 M.R.S.A. § 2611, (4 A). On June 7, 1964, while undergoing imprisonment at that institution pursuant to said judgment of sentence,…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Smith v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1950
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3Cited by27 opinions
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