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IN RE BENNETT

Docket No. Crim. 12972.

71 Cal.2d 117 (1969)

454 P.2d 33

77 Cal. Rptr. 457

In re GEORGE WILLIAM BENNETT on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 14, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lionel K. Hvolboll, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, Edward A. Hinz, Jr., John Fourt and Edsel W. Haws, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, C.J.

Petitioner, an inmate of Folsom State Prison, seeks a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the Adult Authority unlawfully revoked his parole and denied him credit on his prison term for the time he spent in Atascadero State Hospital under commitment orders of the Los Angeles Superior Court.

On December 29, 1958, petitioner was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for the term prescribed by law for a violation of Penal Code section...

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