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PEOPLE EX REL. JONES v. ROBINSON

No. 31787.

409 Ill. 553 (1951)

101 N.E.2d 100

THE PEOPLE ex rel. Will Jones, Petitioner, v. BROWNING ROBINSON, Warden, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 21, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

WILL JONES, pro se.

IVAN A. ELLIOTT, Attorney General, of Springfield, for respondent.

Petitioner remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE HERSHEY delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an original petition for a writ of habeas corpus, filed in this court in the name of the People upon the relation of Will Jones, directed to Browning Robinson, Warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Menard, praying for the discharge of petitioner, a prisoner in said penitentiary by virtue of a certain mittimus issued out of the circuit court of St. Clair...

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