[DOWNLOAD] "Peo. Ex Rel. Abner v. Kinney" by Supreme Court of Illinois # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Peo. Ex Rel. Abner v. Kinney
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 22, 1964
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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This is an original petition in this court for writ of mandamus directed to respondents Charles F. Kinney, chairman, and Henry S. Wise, James C. Craven, Louis Zahn and Douglass R. Turner, associate members of the Parole and Pardon Board of the Department of Public Safety of the State of Illinois, to compel respondents within a reasonable time to grant petitioner, Jess Abner, Jr., a hearing to determine whether he shall be released on parole from the sentence imposed on him in 1954 as required by section I of the Sentence and Parole Act. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1961, chap. 38, par. 801. Petitioner was sentenced to imprisonment for from 15 to 20 years in 1954. He has served the minimum term of his sentence, less good time credit. Section 1 of the Sentence and Parole Act provides: ""Every person sentenced and committed to the penitentiary shall, in the discretion of the Parole and Pardon Board, be eligible to parole under rules and regulations adopted by the Parole and Pardon Board, such paroles to be as follows: * * * A person sentenced for an indeterminate term shall not be eligible for parole until he has served the minimum limit fixed by the court, good time being allowed as provided by law.""