TEETS v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S.F. 19537.

47 Cal.2d 97 (1956)

301 P.2d 581

HARLEY O. TEETS, as Warden, etc., et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF, MARIN COUNTY et al., Respondents; LAWRENCE GENE DOTSON, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 5, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Arlo E. Smith, Deputy Attorney General, for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondents.

Donald D. Connors, Jr., and J. Stewart Harrison for Real Party in Interest.


SHENK, J.

This is a petition by the attorney general for a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent superior court from entertaining a proceeding in habeas corpus sought by Lawrence Gene Dotson, the real party in interest, pending his appeal from a judgment of conviction of first degree murder, burglary and robbery.

The factual background and events resulting in Dotson's conviction are set forth in the opinion of this court in People v. Dotson...

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