Court Opinion

ID: 8654878
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-24 21:14:54.886738+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:56:39.705670
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BASKIN, C. J.
The petitioner appeals to this •court from an order of the district court denying his application for a writ of habeas corpus. It appears from the allegations of the petitioner that he and Z. Graham and Albert Clark were jointly charged by information with the crime of larceny, and in a separate count they were also jointly charged with the crime of receiving stolen property, knowing the same to have been stolen; that the property alleged in the first count of the information to have been stolen was the same as that alleged in the second count as having been received, and was the *270personal property of one 0. F. Johnson. The said Graham and the petitioner were granted separate trials and. each found gnilty of grand laceny and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, and at present are serving that sentence. Afterwards the said Albert Clark was, upon a seperate trial, found guilty of the crime charged in the second count of the information, and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail and to pay a. fine of $250. The petitioner appealed from the judgment against him, and it was affirmed by this court in State v. Clark, 27 Utah 55, 74 Pac. 119.
Habeas corpus cannot operate as an appeal or writ: of error. It is well settled that “the examination into' the imprisonment of a party under the sentence or order of a court is to extend only to the jurisdiction and authority to render the judgment, and where the custody is in pursuance of the order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, such order is final until it is, reversed, and precludes inquiry on the writ.” 9 Enc. Pl. & Pr. 1061, and cases there cited. In Ex parte Hays, 15 Utah 77, 47 Pac. 612, this court, in an opinion delivered by Mr. Justice Bartch, held that “in a criminal case, where the district court has jurisdiction of the person and cause, its judgment is binding on all the world, until reversed in a regular way by appeal. A fortiori is this so after the judgment has been affirmed by the Supreme Court. Such a judgment is final, and pronounces the law of the case; and the Supreme Court will not, upon habeas corpus, look beyond it, and review the proceedings upon which the judgment was pronounced. ’ ’ In the case of State v. Clark, supra, the district court had jurisdiction of the petitioner and the' subject-matter of the information upon which he was. convicted and sentenced. The writ of habeas corpus applied for by the petitioner was therefore properly denied.
The order denying the writ is affirmed.
BARTCH and McCARTY, JJ., concur.