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IN RE CATHEY

Docket Nos. Crim. 6813, 6819.

55 Cal.2d 679 (1961)

361 P.2d 426

12 Cal. Rptr. 762

In re JAMES JACK CATHEY on Habeas Corpus. (Two Cases.)

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 24, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis N. Desmond, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner. Additional briefs were filed by Petitioner pro se.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Raymond M. Momboisse and C. Michael Gianola, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

SCHAUER, J.

By applications for habeas corpus petitioner, who is confined in the California Medical Facility at Vacaville, complains of the place and conditions of his detention. The Medical Facility is supervised by the Director of Corrections and operated under the statutory provisions which apply to "a prison under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections ... insofar as such provisions may be applicable." (Pen...

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