PEOPLE v. HANNON

Docket No. Crim. 15461.

5 Cal.3d 330 (1971)

486 P.2d 1235

96 Cal. Rptr. 35

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MICHAEL JOHN HANNON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

July 8, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

O.D. McClanahan, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch and Evelle J. Younger, Attorneys General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Beverly K. Falk, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of the superior court sentencing him to state prison after his rejection by the California Youth Authority. We are called upon to construe Penal Code section 17 to determine if a juvenile offender, convicted of a crime alternatively punishable as a felony or misdemeanor, and committed to the Youth Authority, may thereafter be sentenced to...

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