McCarty v. Hudspeth

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Thiele, J.:

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus whereby petitioner seeks his release from the state penitentiary.

Petitioner alleges that he is being held under commitments for the' term of ten to twenty-one years “for the crimes of first degree robbery and burglary, concurrently”; that under the sixth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution he was entitled to the assistance of counsel for his defense, and he was denied such right; that he was sixteen years old at the time of his arrest on August 23, 1938; that on the next…