Legal Opinion

Ex parte Behrens

District Court, E.D. Washington

Decided May 4, 1944No. 122Published

1Opinion of the Court

SCHWELLENBACH, District Judge.

Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus in order to secure release from the state penitentiary. He attacks the state indeterminate sentence law, Rem.Rev.Stat. Supp. § 10249 — 1 et seq., as an unconstitutional delegation of judicial power. This contention is without merit. Ughbanks v. Armstrong, 208 U.S. 481, 28 S.Ct. 372, 52 L.Ed. 582; Sims v. Rives, 66 App.D.C. 24, 84 F.2d 871, 879, certiorari denied 298 U.S. 682, 56 S.Ct. 960, 80 L.Ed. 1402; State v. Mulcare, 189 Wash. 625, 66 P.2d 360. Petitioner also asserts that his twenty-year sentence on count two of the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Holiday v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
  2. Ughbanks v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  3. State v. MulcareWashington Supreme Court · 1937
  4. Sims v. RivesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1936
  5. Mason v. WebbCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1944

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