Bartley

People v. Bartley

Good Law
12 Cal. App. 773·1910 Cal. App. LEXIS 286·108 P. 868
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 9, 1910Crim. No. 147.California1,545 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Taggart, J.

Information for burglary. Verdict of guilty and sentence of five years in the state prison. There is an appeal from the judgment and also from an order denying defendant’s petition for probation. The latter order rests entirely within the discretion of the trial court, and is not made appealable by the statute.

The information, after stating the name, place and date of the offense, charges that defendant did “willfully, unlawfully, feloniously and burglariously enter a building located at No. 15 East Haley street in the city of Santa Barbara, which said building then and there belonged to one Prank Loustalot, and was then and there used by the said Prank Loustalot as a saloon and barroom, with the intent then and there to commit the crime of larceny,” etc. In support of the demurrer to this information it is urged that it is insufficient, in that it nowhere alleges that the person charged was a competent person or one capable of committing a crime; and that the intent alleged by the information is the intent of the owner of the building and not the intent of the person charged with the offense. The first objection appears to be based upon the theory that the defendant having been…

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