Macduff v. Cranor

On May 1, 1944, the petitioner entered a plea of guilty to a charge of taking a motor vehicle without permission of the owner, in violation of RCW 9.54.020. The court entered judgment and sentence that petitioner be punished by imprisonment for a period of not more than twenty years.

The petitioner now claims that the judgment and sentence were illegal, in that his term of confinement could not legally exceed ten years as provided by Rem. Rev. Stat., § 2265. The statute reads as follows:

“Every person convicted of a felony for which no punishment is specially prescribed by any statutory…