In Re Wells

MOSK, J.

In 1948 petitioner Kenneth James Wells entered a plea of guilty to a violation of section 288 of the Penal Code for sexual misconduct with a five-year-old girl. He was adjudged a sexual psychopath and committed to a state hospital. After a year and a half in the hospital, petitioner was returned to the superior court and granted probation. In 1951, upon evidence of similar offenses, his probation was revoked and he was sentenced to state prison for the term of one year to life. His appeal from the revocation proceeding was unsuccessful

(People

v.

Wells

(1952) 112 Cal.App.2d 672 [246 P.2d 1023]), and he was not paroled until 1960.

Within six months after he was paroled petitioner pleaded guilty to child molestation (Pen. Code, § 647a), admitted the prior conviction, and was sentenced to state prison, the term to run concurrently with the unexpired term of the prior conviction. His parole from the 1952 commitment was also revoked. Petitioner did not appeal.

Petitioner alleges that at the preliminary examination

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preceding the initial conviction in 1948 he was not apprised of his right to counsel (Pen. Code, § 859), and an order to show cause was issued primarily to consider his claim that the 1948 conviction is now open to collateral attack.

The reporter’s transcript of the 1948 proceeding is not now available, and thus petitioner’s allegation that he was unrepresented by counsel at the preliminary examination cannot be substantiated. But assuming that petitioner was not then represented, his petition nevertheless lacks merit because he did not move to set aside the information, although he was represented by counsel in all subsequent proceedings. (Pen. Code, § 995.) As we explain in

People

v.

Harris, ante,

p. 866 [64 Cal.Rptr. 313, 434 P.2d 609], petitioner thereby waived his statutory right to question the legality of his commitment. (Pen. Code, § 996.) Petitioner’s plea of guilty, entered with the advice of counsel, also precludes raising this contention.