IN RE SGRO

Docket No. Crim. 6398.

52 Cal.2d 819 (1959)

345 P.2d 455

In re JAMES DOMINICK SGRO, on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 30, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Dominick Sgro, in pro. per., and Edward Molkenbuhr, Jr., under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Chief Assistant Attorney General, and Arlo E. Smith, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


TRAYNOR, J.

Petitioner is held under a judgment of conviction entered on his plea of guilty of burglary (Pen. Code, § 459), which the court found to be in the second degree. In his petition in propria persona for a writ of habeas corpus petitioner charges that his conviction was obtained in violation of his constitutional right to counsel.

Petitioner asserts that he was 19 years of age at the time he was charged with the commission of the burglary for...

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