Court Opinion

ID: 9601566
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:47:03.66566+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:58.698386
License: Public Domain

*535CARTER, J.
I concur in the conclusion reached in the majority opinion and generally in the reasoning upon which it is based, as it appears to be in full accord with the views expressed by me in my dissenting opinion in People v. Dorman, 28 Cal.2d 846, 855 [172 P.2d 686], except that in the Dorman case we were reviewing the case on its merits on an appeal from the judgment, and here the review is limited to the issues which may be raised on habeas corpus.
It is apparent to me that the principal error committed by the trial court in the ease at bar was in denying a continuance to enable the defendant to obtain counsel and prepare his defense, as it is clear that even if the court had appointed counsel for him and he had been forced to trial on the day the case was called, he would not have been accorded the type of trial guaranteed by both the federal and state Constitutions and the law of this state. Such was the situation in the Dorman case which a majority of this court sanctioned in affirming the judgment there. It is somewhat refreshing to me to see the court now reverse the position taken by it in the Dorman case.