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IN RE CHESSMAN

Docket No. Crim. 5591. S.F. No. 19158.

44 Cal.2d 1 (1955)

279 P.2d 24

In re CARYL CHESSMAN, on Habeas Corpus. THE PEOPLE, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF MARIN COUNTY, Respondent; CARYL CHESSMAN, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 1, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Charles E. McClung, Deputy Attorney General, for Appellant in Crim. No. 5591, and for Petitioner in S.F. No. 19158.

Caryl Chessman, in pro. per., and Rosalie Asher for Respondent on appeal in Crim. No. 5591 and for Real Party in Interest in S.F. No. 19158.

No appearance for respondent in S.F. No. 19158.

SCHAUER, J.

By a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed on October 17, 1951, Caryl Chessman, an inmate of San Quentin State Prison whose appeal from 17 judgments of conviction was pending, sought relief from allegedly illegal conditions of imprisonment which assertedly interfered with his representation of himself.1 On December 18, 1951, this court affirmed the judgments, two of which imposed the death penalty. (People v.

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