People v. Larsen

This is an appeal from an order denying defendant’s motion to vacate the judgment of conviction, a proceeding recognized as the equivalent of an application for a writ of error coram nolis. (People v. Jennings, 121 Cal.App.2d 531, 532 [263 P.2d 37] ; People v. Adamson, 34 Cal.2d 320, 330 [210 P.2d 13]; 12 Cal.Jur.2d § 4, p. 554.)

Appellant’s major contention is that a 1947 amendment to Penal Code, section 2926, 1 is unconstitutional, in that it deprives him of certain credits previously earned. The authorities establish that corum nolis “is not the proper vehicle for vindicating constitutional…