51 Wn.2d 891, In the Matter of the Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus of WAYNE W. POWERS, Petitioner, V. MERLE E. SCHNECKLOTH,

Case Date: 09/17/1957
Docket No: 34056.DepartmentOne

51 Wn.2d 891, In the Matter of the Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus of WAYNE W. POWERS, Petitioner, V. MERLE E. SCHNECKLOTH,

[No. 34056. Department One.      Supreme Court      September 17, 1957.]

In the Matter of the Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus of WAYNE
      W. POWERS, Petitioner, V. MERLE E. SCHNECKLOTH, as
           Superintendent of the State Penitentiary, Respondent.1

Application filed in the supreme court November 2, 1956, for a writ of habeas corpus. Denied; imposition of corrected sentence directed.

Wayne W. Powers, pro se.

The Attorney General and Michael R. Alfieri, Assistant, for respondent.

PER CURIAM. -

On November 14, 1952, the petitioner was found guilty of the crime of taking a motor vehicle without permission of the owner, in violation of RCW 9.54.020, Rem. Rev. Stat., 2601-1. The court entered judgment and sentence that petitioner be punished by imprisonment for a period of not more than twenty years.

For the same reasons indicated in the per curiam opinion in In re Richey v. Squier, ante p. 38, 315 P. (2d) 638, filed this day, the petitioner is to be returned to the court where his plea was entered, and that court is directed to impose a corrected sentence.

In the Matter of the Application of JAMES LOUIS BASTIAN for a Writ
                          of Habeas Corpus.

[No. 34078. Department One.      Supreme Court      October 17, 1957.]

In the Matter of the Application of JAMES LOUIS BASTIAN for a Writ
                          of Habeas Corpus.

JAMES LOUIS BASTIAN, Petitioner, v. MERLE R. SCHNECKLOTH, as
          Superintendent of the State Penitentiary, Respondent.2