Forrester

Pursuant to count two of an information duly filed, defendant was convicted of the crime of violation of chapter 339, Laws of 1923 (Act 1970 of Deering’s Gen. Laws 1923), “committed as follows: That the said John Forrester, on or about the twenty-ninth day of January, 1931, at and in the county of Los Angeles, state of California, did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously have in his possession and custody and under his control a certain firearm, capable of being concealed upon the person, the said firearm having a barrel less than twelve inches in length, the said John Forrester having theretofore been duly and legally convicted of a felony, to-wit, burglary, on the 24th day of April, 1922, by and before the superior court of the state of California, in and for the county of Los Angeles.” It was further alleged that before the commission of said offense defendant had been convicted of the crime of burglary, and judgment of said superior court pronounced and rendered on the twenty-fourth day of November, 1922, and that defendant served a term of imprisonment therefor in a penal institution. On arraignment on March 9, 1931, the defendant regularly entered his plea of not guilty and…