In Re Bost

KNIGHT, J.

The petitioner is imprisoned in the state prison at San Quentin, and seeks to be discharged therefrom on a writ of

habeas corpus.

The following are the facts, as they appear from the allegations of the petition for the writ and the copies of the court records which are made part thereof: After having been found guilty by a jury in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County of the crime of manslaughter, and following the denial of a motion for a new trial, petitioner was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison; and from the judgment of conviction he took an appeal. On October 18, 1929, pursuant to said judgment of conviction and in execution of the sentence, the court issued its commitment, by virtue of which petitioner was on November 9, 1929, delivered into the custody of the warden of the state prison at San Quentin and imprisoned therein. Shortly thereafter said superior court made an order, presumably under the authority of section 1333 of the Penal Code, directing the temporary removal of petitioner from the state prison to the county of Los Angeles, so that he might appear as a witness in a case pending therein; and on November 29, 1929, in obedience to said order the warden released petitioner into the custody of the sheriff of Los Angeles County, and he was by the latter conveyed to Los Angeles. On August 4, 1930, petitioner was still in Los Angeles County, in the custody of the sheriff, at which time the judgment of conviction from which he had appealed was affirmed.

(People

v.

Bost,

107 Cal. App. 550 [290 Pac. 513].) The

remittitur

was filed in the superior court on September 12, 1930. On November 3, 1930, petitioner was taken before the superior court and granted leave to present an- application for probation; whereupon, and on November 18, 1930, the court made an order that the previous judgment of sen

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tence that petitioner be imprisoned in the state prison be set aside and that he be released on probation. Acting under the advice of the attorney-general that the proceedings taken by the superior court on November 18, 1930, were illegal and void, petitoner was again taken into custody by the warden under the authority of the original commitment ; and he has since been confined in the state prison by virtue thereof.