State v. Gedraitis

The appellant was convicted in the superior court of King county, of the crime of forgery in the first degree on two counts. On October 10, 1936, Judge Lawler, who presided at the trial, acting under chapter 114, Laws of 1935, p. 308, Rem. Rev. Stat. (Sup.), § 10249-1 [P. C. § 4503-31] et seq., in effect at the time when the crime was charged to have been committed, sentenced the appellant to serve a term in the state penitentiary of not more than twenty years on each count; the sentences were to run concurrently. Subsequently, April 6, 1937, on habeas corpus proceedings, the sentences were…