Wilson

People v. Wilson

Good Law
100 Cal. App. 397·1929 Cal. App. LEXIS 285·280 P. 137
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaAugust 20, 1929Docket No. 1807.California992 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Hahn, J.

Defendant George Wilson was charged by an information filed by the district attorney of San Bernardino County, in each of two counts, with the crime of burglary. To count one he plead guilty, and in due course sentence was passed upon him, committing him to San Quentin. The other count was dismissed on motion of the district attorney.

Before the defendant was removed to the penitentiary in execution of his sentence the district attorney learned that he had several prior convictions to his credit and thereupon filed a supplemental information under the provisions of section 969a of the Penal Code, charging in separate counts four prior convictions of felonies.

The first charged that the defendant was convicted of first degree burglary in Tulare County, California, in 1914 under the name of Frank Clark and was committed to the state penitentiary at San Quentin for the period of one year. In the second count the defendant was charged with having been convicted of burglary in the second degree in Tuba County, California, in 1919 under the name of William Henry Duncan, and that he was duly sentenced to five years in San Quentin. The third count was dismissed on motion of the district…

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