In Re Finley
California Court of Appeal
APPLICATION for Writ of Habeas Corpus to the Sheriff of Sacramento County. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMcLAUGHLIN, J.
Application for writ of habeas corpus.
The petitioner, while undergoing a life sentence in the state prison at Folsom, was indicted for the crime defined in section 246 of the Penal Code, and is now confined in the county jail of Sacramento County awaiting trial for said crime.
The section upon which the indictment is based reads as follows: “Every person undergoing a Ufe sentence in a state prison of this state, who, with malice aforethought, commits an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument, or by any means or force likely to produce great bodily injury, is…
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