Ex Parte Heath

THE COURT.

Petitioner is detained in the California state prison at Folsom and seeks a writ of habeas corpus.

The judgment under which he is imprisoned sentenced petitioner to be confined in the California state prison according to law. The petitioner was convicted of the crime of robbery after a prior conviction of a felony. (In re Heath, 49 Cal. App. 657 [194 Pac. 68].) The punishment fixed by law is life imprisonment. (In re Heath, supra; secs. 213 and 667, Pen. Code.) The petitioner contends that inasmuch as the indeterminate sentence law does not apply (In re Heath, supra), that it was the…