Matter of Roberts
California Supreme Court
PETITION for Discharge upon Writ of Habeas Corpus ■from the custody of the Chief of Police of the City and County ■of San Francisco. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1ConcurrenceHenshaw, J.
I concur in the judgment for the following reasons:—
Section 337a of our Penal Code is in all essentials (saving that of the penalty prescribed) an exact re-enactment of section 351 of the Penal Code of the state of New York. It is a familiar rule that when one state enacts a statute taken from the books of a sister state, the construction which the courts of the latter state have put upon the statute is of great value and of high persuasive 'force in its interpretation. If a reading of this statute did not clearly disclose, as I think it does, that its principal, if not its sole, object is to…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- People v. . StedekerNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
- People Ex Rel. Lichtenstein v. . LanganNew York Court of Appeals · 1909
- People ex rel. Collins v. McLaughlinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
- People v. WynnNew York Supreme Court · 1890
- People v. FisherNew York Supreme Court · 1891