Naranjo v. DISTRICT COURT IN & FOR TENTH JUD. DIST.

In this original proceeding, petitioner seeks relief from a sentence of sixty years to life imprisonment, imposed upon his conviction by a jury of second-degree murder. We issued our rule to show cause why the relief prayed for should not be granted. The respondents have answered and the matter is now at issue. We make the rule absolute.

On February 27, 1970, petitioner was convicted of murder in the second degree. He was thereafter sentenced, on June 8, 1970, to a term in the state penitentiary of not less than sixty years nor more than life imprisonment.

On appeal, by decision rendered April…