PEOPLE v. HOWARD

Docket No. Crim. 8366.

62 Cal.2d 237 (1965)

397 P.2d 999

42 Cal. Rptr. 7

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ROBERT EUGENE HOWARD, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 15, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Eugene Howard, in pro. per., and Paul Ackerman, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk and Thomas C. Lynch, Attorneys General, Robert R. Granucci, Barry L. Bunshoft and George J. Roth, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


TRAYNOR, C.J.

In February 1963, defendant was sentenced to prison on five counts of first degree robbery. (Pen. Code, § 211a.) He did not appeal. In September 1963, he filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis. He alleged that section 671 of the Penal Code1 is unconstitutional, that the public defender inadequately represented him at trial, that the trial judge erred in failing...

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