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83 Cal. 558

Ex parte McConnell

California Supreme Court

Decided April 11, 1890

California Supreme Court · decided 1890-04-11

<p>Criminal Law—Conviction without Preliminary Examination — Habeas Corpus.—A prisoner, convicted upon an information of a felony, cannot raise the objection in a proceeding upon habeas corpus that he was not examined or held to answer by a magistrate prior to the filing of the information. Such objection should have been taken before trial, by motion to set aside the information,</p>

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Decided 1890-04-11

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Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1958

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Beatty, C. J.

¶1— The petitioner, who has been tried and convicted upon an information charging him with the crime of burglary, seeks to be discharged from imprisonment in the state prison, under said conviction, upon the ground that he was not examined or held to answer by a magistrate prior to the filing of the information.

¶2It is too late, after conviction, to raise this objection in a proceeding upon habeas corpus.

¶3It should have been taken by motion to set aside the information before trial. (Pen. Code, sec. 995.)

¶4The filing of the information gave the court jurisdiction to proceed in the case, and the section of the code cited provides the exclusive method of trying the question whether the information was founded on the necessary preliminary examination and commitment.

¶5No objection to the information having been made at the proper time, the superior court properly proceeded with the trial. Its judgment is regular and valid, and the imprisonment of the petitioner is lawful.

¶6Writ discharged, and prisoner remanded.

¶7Fox, J., Works, J., Paterson, J., Sharpstein, J., and McFarland, J., concurred.

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