Stephens v. Toomey

This is a petition for a writ of mandate to compel the registrar of voters of the city and county of San Francisco to register the petitioner as an elector. The registrar refused on the ground that he had been convicted of an infamous crime as contemplated by section 1 of article II of the Constitution of the state and was therefore ineligible to vote. On October 6, 1954, the petitioner entered a plea of guilty to the crime of robbery, found by the court to be robbery of the first degree, a felony (penalty—five years to life, Pen. Code, § 213). Judgment was pronounced against him and he was…