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IN RE ASHLEY v. DELMORE

No. 33577.

49 Wn.2d 1 (1956)

297 P.2d 958

In the Matter of the Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus of WILLIAM C. ASHLEY, Petitioner, v. LAWRENCE DELMORE, JR., as Superintendent of the State Penitentiary, Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.

May 24, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. C. Ashley, pro se.

The Attorney General and Michael R. Alfieri, Assistant, for respondent.

HILL, J.

William C. Ashley petitions for a writ of habeas corpus. He was sentenced June 15, 1939, to not more than twenty years in the Washington state reformatory for first-degree forgery. June 19, 1939, while awaiting transportation to the reformatory, he escaped from the Benton county jail. Upon being recaptured, he entered a plea of guilty to an information charging that he "did, by force, escape from the said Benton County jail," he then and there

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