In Re Booth

THE COURT.

This is an application for a writ of hateas corpus. The petitioner, who is confined in the California state prison at San Quentin, was sentenced by the superior court, in and for the county of Butte, on Septem ber 24, 1917, “for the indeterminate term of one to fourteen years, ’ ’ after having entered a plea of guilty to the crime of forgery, committed on the eighteenth day of June, 1917, before the indeterminate sentence law of this state went into effect. Thereafter, and pursuant to the personal request of the petitioner, the court made an order for his return into court, to the…