Court Opinion

ID: 4717292
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-12 00:56:47.101793+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:07:30.145669
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Per Curiam.
On December 26, 1955, the petitioner entered a plea of guilty to the crime of taking a motor vehicle without permission of *896the 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.