In Re Caffey

Petitioner is confined in the California Men’s Colony at Los Padres under a judgment of conviction of violating Health and Safety Code section 11500 (possession of heroin) entered upon his plea of guilty in the San Francisco Superior Court on February 18, 1959. He admitted two prior federal narcotics convictions, and the court sentenced him to imprisonment for not less than two nor more than twenty years (former Health & Saf. Code, § 11712). In this habeas corpus proceeding he challenges the validity of his prior convictions.

Petitioner’s first prior conviction was entered on June 30, 1943, in…