IN RE BOYCE

Docket No. Crim. 6368.

51 Cal.2d 699 (1959)

336 P.2d 164

In re CHARLES HOWARD BOYCE, on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 10, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Bagby, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arlo E. Smith and Preble Stolz, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondents.


SHENK, J.

In this proceeding the petitioner, Charles Howard Boyce, seeks a writ of habeas corpus while confined in the state prison at Soledad under a 1957 judgment of conviction of burglary. It is contended that, because he was denied the right of counsel at the time he was sentenced, his present confinement is illegal.

The attorney general, in behalf of Lawrence E. Wilson, superintendent of the prison at Soledad, has filed a return consisting in part of...

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