In Re Phair

Petitioner seeks to be released from the Los Angeles County jail by the writ of habeas corpus claiming that he is illegally imprisoned.

Phair was convicted in four counts of a misdemeanor in the superior court and was sentenced to the county jail for the period of two years for each count. The sentence was reversed by this court (People v. Gordon Phair, 137 Cal. App. 612 [31 Pac. (2d) 421]) and the case was sent back to the trial court for resentence for the reason that section 19a of the Penal Code limits the total sentence in such cases to the period of one year.

The period of one year from…