IN RE SMITH

Docket No. Crim. 13795.

3 Cal.3d 192 (1970)

474 P.2d 969

90 Cal. Rptr. 1

In re JOHN ALEXANDER SMITH on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

July 9, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John Alexander Smith, in pro. per., and Daniel H. Dibert, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Albert W. Harris, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and George R. Nock, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

Petitioner, John Alexander Smith, is presently incarcerated at San Quentin under sentence imposed in 1967 after he was convicted of two counts of kidnaping (Pen. Code, § 207), one count of rape (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. 3), and one count of attempted kidnaping (Pen. Code, §§ 207 and 664). We issued an order to show cause in response to his petition in propria persona for a writ of habeas corpus...

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