Arizona Supreme Court, 1940

Pray v. Shute

Pray v. Shute
Arizona Supreme Court · Decided October 22, 1940 · ROSS, C.J.
106 P.2d 503; 56 Ariz. 179; 1940 Ariz. LEXIS 170 (Pacific Reporter, Second Series)

Pray v. Shute

Opinion of the Court

The petitioner here is the same person as the defendant-appellant in Criminal Cause No. 895, entitled: PearlPray, Appellant, v. State of Arizona, Respondent, ante, p. 171, 106 P.2d 500. She seeks to be discharged from the state prison where she is confined, claiming such imprisonment is unlawful.

The return of the superintendent of the prison to the writ ofhabeas corpus issued out of this court shows that she is held by him under and by virtue of a judgment and sentence for the crime of perjury duly rendered and entered in the Superior Court of Maricopa County, Arizona, and a commitment duly issued thereon dated April 22, 1940.

For the reasons given in the opinion in Cause No. 895, supra, for not reversing the judgment and sentence therein, petitioner is not entitled to her discharge on writ of habeas corpus. Accordingly, the writ is quashed.

LOCKWOOD and McALISTER, JJ., concur. *Page 181

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