In re Finley

In 1946 a jury found petitioner guilty of first degree robbery. The information alleged and petitioner admitted prior convictions of burglary in the State of Washington in 1932 and first degree robbery in California in 1938, with service of a term of imprisonment for each. The Los Angeles County Superior Court adjudged petitioner an habit*390ual criminal and sentenced Mm to life imprisonment. (Pen. Code, § 644, subd. (a).)1 Petitioner did not appeal.2

In this habeas corpus proceeding petitioner attacks the determination of habitual criminality. He contends that the determination must fall because…