Case Name: In the Matter of the Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus of Martin Holohan, Petitioner, v. B. J. Rhay, as Superintendent of the State Penitentiary, Respondent
Court: Washington Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Washington
Decision Date: 1958-01-31
Citations: 51 Wash. 2d 895
Docket Number: No. 34495
Parties: In the Matter of the Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus of Martin Holohan, Petitioner, v. B. J. Rhay, as Superintendent of the State Penitentiary, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Washington Reports
Volume: 51
Pages: 895–896

Head Matter:
[No. 34495.
Department Two.
January 31, 1958.]
In the Matter of the Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus of Martin Holohan, Petitioner, v. B. J. Rhay, as Superintendent of the State Penitentiary, Respondent.
Martin Holohan, pro se.
The Attorney General and Michael R. Alfieri, Assistant, for respondent.
Reported in 321 P. (2d) 259.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
On December 26, 1955, the petitioner entered a plea of guilty to the crime of taking a motor vehicle without permission of the owner in violation of RCW 9.54.020, Rem. Rev. Stat., § 2601-1. Judgment and sentence was entered by the superior court January 18, 1956, providing that petitioner be punished by imprisonment for a period of not more than twenty years.
For the reasons indicated in the per curiam opinion in In re Richey v. Squier, ante p. 38, 315 P. (2d) 638, filed September 17, 1957, the petitioner is to be returned to the court where his plea was entered, and that court is directed to impose a corrected sentence of not more than ten years, as provided by the properly applicable statute, i.e., RCW 9.92.010, Rem. Rev. Stat., § 2265.
Writ of habeas corpus denied; imposition of corrected sentence directed.