Case Name: In re BEN E. PEDERSON, Petitioner
Court: Montana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Montana
Decision Date: 1954-11-29
Citations: 128 Mont. 618
Docket Number: No. 9441
Parties: In re BEN E. PEDERSON, Petitioner.
Judges: Before MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR, and ASSOCIATE JUSTICES BOTTOMRY, FREEBOURN, ANGSTMAN and ANDERSON.
Reporter: Montana Reports
Volume: 128
Pages: 618–619

Head Matter:
No. 9441.
In re BEN E. PEDERSON, Petitioner.
276 Pac. (2d) 981.
Decided November 29, 1954.
Before MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR, and ASSOCIATE JUSTICES BOTTOMRY, FREEBOURN, ANGSTMAN and ANDERSON.

Opinion:
This is a habeas corpus proceeding brought by Ben E. Pederson while an inmate of the Montana state prison where he was received August 29, 1951, to serve a term of five years for having committed the crime of forgery, to the commission whereof he pleaded guilty in the district court of Cascade County, Montana, where sentence was pronounced August 27, 1951.
It now appears that since so petitioning this court for relief, Pederson was and has been released from custody and discharged from the state's prison after having served two years, ten months and twenty-one days therein receiving and being credited with "good time" allowance. Accordingly the writ is denied and the proceeding is dismissed.