Gunton
Gunton v. Squier
Opinion
Opinion
Clark, J.
The record shows that Petitioner was arrested and taken into custody by the State authorities; that he was held in the Los Angeles County jail because of the State arrest; that while he was being so held the United States Attorney applied for a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum requiring the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, having custody of petitioner in a pending State prosecution, to bring petitioner to the United States District Court for trial, the application stating the petitioner was to be returned to the Sheriff’s custody on determination of the trial and proceedings in the District Court. The writ was issued requiring appellant’s production and his return to the Sheriff on the completion of the Federal proceedings. Under the terms of the writ he was brought to the United States District Court where he entered his plea of guilty to the charge of having transported a stolen motor vehicle from California to Arizona. He was sentenced by the United States District Court to serve two years in an institution to be designated by the Attorney General, and he was then returned to the Los Angeles County Sheriff. Thereafter he was taken before the State Court and sentenced to…