Legal Opinion
In Re Egan
California Supreme Court
Decided June 5, 1944No. Crim. 4415PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtShenk, J.
On February 2, 1942, Frank Egan, on behalf of himself and Albert Tinnin, filed in this court a petition for writs of habeas corpus. Egan is confined in the State Prison at San Quentin, and Tinnin in the State Prison at Folsom. The wardens of those prisons are the respondents. Egan and Tinnin are under sentences of life imprisonment for the murder of Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes in April 1932. Also implicated in the homicide was Verne Doran, a con fessed accomplice, who turned state’s evidence, and whose case was brought on for trial after the conviction of Egan and Tinnin. On the joint trial of…
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