IN RE DAVIS

Docket No. Crim. 5222.

37 Cal.2d 872 (1951)

236 P.2d 579

In re BRUCE DAVIS, on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 26, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Davis, in pro. per., and C.K. Curtright, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Clarence A. Linn, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


SCHAUER, J.

Petitioner, by application for the writ of habeas corpus, asks that we declare that his confinement under a 1944 judgment of conviction of forgery is illegal and that he can be held only under certain 1948 judgments not here attacked. He urges that the 1944 judgment is invalid because he was only 18 years of age at the time of his arrest on the charge which resulted in that judgment and he was not referred to...

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