In re Brown

Citations

• 32 Cal. 48

Syllabus

<p>Commitment to Prison.—No other authority or warrant for the detention of a prisoner is required than a certified copy of the judgment rendered against him.</p> <p>Sentence on Plea of Guilty of Murder.—If a defendant pleads guilty to an indictment for murder which does not specify the degree, and the Court imposes a sentence of confinement in the State Prison, the judgment is not a nullity, for the presumption is that the Court hy testimony ascertained the degree of the crime. ®</p>