In Re Grant v. Smith

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for writ of habeas corpus. In his petition the applicant sought to have declared null and void a judgment of the superior court of Thurston county entered November 26, 1937, by which he was sentenced to two terms of twenty years’ maximum each. One was for assault in the first degree and the other for robbery. The sentences were to run consecutively and not concurrently. Petitioner contends that the judgment in Thurston county was void because it did not designate the ending of the first and the beginning of the second term, and was therefore…