Dobson v. Cranor

Petitioner has applied for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he is unlawfully restrained of his liberty at the state penitentiary by virtue of a judgment and *175sentence of the superior court for Yakima county, upon a plea of guilty of the purported crime of “larceny by check.”

We held in In re Sorenson v. Smith, 34 Wn. (2d) 659, 209 P. (2d) 479, that there is no statute which designates “larceny by check” a crime. However, we also held in that case that, where such a recitation is in the judgment, we may examine the information in order to ascertain what the charge actually was.

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