People v. De Fehr

On the sixteenth day of November, 1925, an information was filed by the district attorney of Sacramento County, in the superior court of said county, charging the defendant with the crime of pimping, as said crime is defined by an act of the legislature of 1911 (Stats. 1911, p. 10) as amended by the legislature of 1921 (Stats. 1921, p. 96.) On the seventeenth day of November, 1925, the defendant was arraigned upon said information, entered a plea of not guilty thereto, and his trial for the offense so charged fixed and set for the twenty-eighth day of December, 1925, at the hour of 10 o’clock A. M. On the last-mentioned date, the case having been called for trial, the defendant, through his counsel, asked for and was by the court granted permission to withdraw his plea of not guilty theretofore interposed to the information and, being thereupon called upon to plead to said information, entered a plea of guilty to the crime therein charged. On the same day (December 28, 1925), the court, having upon investigation found that the age of the accused was between eighteen and twenty-one years, made an order, under authority of section 7 of the Juvenile Court Law ('Stats. 1915, pp. 1225,…