IN RE DAUP

Docket No. Crim. 8813.

63 Cal.2d 754 (1965)

408 P.2d 957

48 Cal. Rptr. 181

In re WILLIAM J. DAUP on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 23, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Daup, in pro. per., and Robert N. Beechinor, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Robert R. Granucci, Paul N. Halvonik and Edward P. O'Brien, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondents.


PETERS, J.

This petition involves the same issue resolved today in In re Estrada, ante, page 740 [48 Cal.Rptr. 172, 408 P.2d 948]. The problem is whether, when a law providing punishment for a criminal act is amended so as to ameliorate the punishment after the act is committed but before the judgment of conviction has become final, does the law as it read when the act was committed...

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