Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-16 | Page 22 | Prison Law Test Case Transferred

PRISON LAW TEST CASE TRANSFERRED BOISE (Xn Judge C E. Wlnstead of the Third district court transferred trans-ferred to Judge Charles F. Koelech Monday th hearing set for February Feb-ruary IT In a teat case brought to secure a judicial Interpretation of Idaho's indeterminate penal sentence sen-tence law. Th transfer followed the filing by Attorney General J. W. Taylor of an affidavit charging Judge Wlnstead Wln-stead would be "prejudiced against the state." No specific grounds for prejudice preju-dice were related. Ths action was started by Z. Reed Millar in behalf of Carl Haines, who was sentenced by Judge Doran H. Sutphen at Gooding on January SO, 193S. to on to 1 years la ths Idaho penitentiary en a forgery charge. Haines is now an inmate In th institution aad seeks release an the grounds that he la being unlawfully detained after completing his minimum mini-mum sentence.