Bowles

The defendant has appealed from an order of the Superior Court of Riverside County denying his motion to vacate a judgment rendered in a criminal action wherein he was accused of having issued a check drawn upon a bank in which he did not have sufficient funds on deposit to meet said check on presentation. The information filed in said action also charged that the defendant had theretofore suffered two prior convictions of felonies for' each of which he had been sentenced to confinement in a state prison of the state of California, and in each instance the sentence imposed upon him was served. The defendant entered a plea of not guilty and was tried before a jury which returned a verdict finding him guilty of the offense charged in the information and another verdict finding that the allegations that he had suffered two prior convictions were true. The defendant thereupon presented a motion for a new trial, which was denied, and on April 8, 1929, the trial court pronounced judgment adjudging that the defendant be confined in the state prison at Folsom, California, for the remainder of his natural life. From this judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial, the…