In Re Williams

THE COURT.

In 1929 the petitioner was convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree in the Superior Court of Riverside County. Following his conviction the court pronounced judgment, and in so doing used the following language: “Therefore, it will be the judgment and order of the court that you be punished by twenty years’ imprisonment in the States Prison, and that you be delivered by the Sheriff of Riverside County to the custody of the Warden of the States Prison at Folsom,' there to be dealt with as required by law.”

The petitioner was received at Folsom on the eleventh day of July,…