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IN RE CARMEN

Docket No. Crim. 5667.

48 Cal.2d 851 (1957)

313 P.2d 817

In re RAYNA TOM CARMEN, on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 2, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mason A. Bailey and Leonard J. Bloom for Petitioner.

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

SPENCE, J.

Petitioner, Rayna Tom Carmen, is confined in the state prison at San Quentin under judgments of conviction of first degree murder and of assault with intent to commit murder. He seeks his release from custody upon alleged jurisdictional grounds.

Petitioner was first convicted of the two offenses in the Superior Court of Madera County in 1950. Wilbur Dan McSwain was the victim of the murder and Alvin McSwain was the victim of the assault. The crimes...

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