In Re Drake

38 Cal.2d 195 (1951)

In re ROY DRAKE, on Habeas Corpus.

Crim. No. 5254.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

Dec. 18, 1951.

Mento & Buchler and George K. Littlefield for Petitioner.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Gail A. Strader, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

EDMONDS, J.

In his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Roy Drake, an inmate of Folsom Prison, alleges that in 1943 he was sentenced to imprisonment on his plea of guilty to two charges of first degree robbery. Seven months later, he and three other convicts escaped. The…