In re Murray

*856The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

On December 12, 1908, the petitioners, having been tried and convicted of the crime of robbery on a railway train, were each sentenced to confinement and hard labor in the state penitentiary'• for a period of hot less than ten years. Section 1 of chapter 375 of the Laws of 1903 (Crim. Code, §272u), known as the indeterminate-sentence law, provides that the court in imposing such sentence shall not fix the limit of duration of the sentence. The failure of the district court to follow the provisions of the statute, however, is not relied upon…