Ex parte Neustadt
California Supreme Court
Application to supreme court for the release of petitioner upon writ of habeas corpus. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtPaterson, J.
The petitioner was convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses, and sentenced, on March 31, 1888, to imprisonment in the county jail for the term of one year, to pay a fine of $2,249, and in default of payment thereof, to be imprisoned one day for every dollar remaining unpaid, the latter imprisonment to commence at the end of the one-year term of imprisonment first ordered.
The penalty provided by section 532 of the Penal Code, under which the petitioner was convicted, is “imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, and by a fine not exceeding three times the value of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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