Case Name: STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George W. CLEMENTS, Defendant-Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of New Mexico
Jurisdiction: New Mexico
Decision Date: 1972-05-26
Citations: 83 N.M. 764
Docket Number: No. 9345
Parties: STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George W. CLEMENTS, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: COMPTON, C. J., and McMANUS, J., concur.
Reporter: New Mexico Reports
Volume: 83
Pages: 764–764

Head Matter:
497 P.2d 975
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George W. CLEMENTS, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 9345.
Supreme Court of New Mexico.
May 26, 1972.
James L. Dow, Carlsbad, for appellant. David L. Norvell, Atty. Gen., Winston Roberts-Hohl, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for appellee.

Opinion:
OPINION
OMAN, Justice.
This cause is before us on an attempt by defendant to appeal from an order of the district court denying his Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. Subsequent to the filing of the brief in chief in this court, the parties entered into and filed a written stipulation that the brief in chief could be considered by us as a petition to this court for a writ of habeas corpus. This stipulation was denied, and the case subsequently came on for hearing on the purported appeal.
Apparently the effort, to have us consider the appeal as a petition for writ of habeas corpus, was prompted by a. realization of the parties that petitioner has no right of appeal to this court from the denial by the district court of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. State v. Sisk, 79 N.M. 167, 441 P.2d 207 (1968); In re Forest, 45 N.M. 204, 113 P.2d 582 (1941); Supreme Court Rule 5(2) [§ 21-2-1(5) (2), N.M.S.A.1953 (Repl.Vol. 4, 1970)].
The appeal should be dismissed.
It is so ordered.
COMPTON, C. J., and McMANUS, J., concur.