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IN RE BEASLEY

Docket No. 6739.

256 Cal.App.2d 721 (1967)

64 Cal. Rptr. 540

In re JEWELL C. BEASLEY on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Four.

December 7, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Cotchett, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Robert R. Granucci and William D. Stein, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

DEVINE, P.J.

Petitioner seeks release from the state prison by means of habeas corpus. His point is that when the Adult Authority purportedly refixed his sentence at maximum (which is life imprisonment, his conviction having been for first degree robbery) on August 10, 1962, his term had expired; wherefore, the Authority was without power to act as it did.

Petitioner was received in state prison on the robbery charge on July 17, 1949. His term was fixed at...

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