Legal Opinion
In Re Spinks
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 21, 1967No. Crim. 2844PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCoughlin, J.
By petition for writ of habeas corpus,
William Spinks alleged he was unlawfully imprisoned in the San Diego County jail; was a chronic alcoholic sentenced to that jail for 180 days, less one day suspended, for violation of Penal Code, section 647, subdivision (f); and this sentence violated the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution because his “acts were compulsive as symptomatic of his disease and that treatment of such acts as criminal is cruel and unusual punishment under said Amendment. ’ ’ A writ of habeas corpus was issued; a hearing was held; and, thereupon, the court made…
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