Pantages
People v. Pantages
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Conret, J.
In the Superior Court of Los Angeles County appellant was convicted of a felony and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison. His appeal from the judgment is now pending in this court.
. Appellant has now filed an application for admission to bail herein. He states, among other things, that since the date of his conviction circumstances of an extraordinary character have occurred, in that his confinement and detention in the county jail has caused recurrence in an active form of a heart disease with which he had been theretofore afflicted; and that at the time of filing his application (February 3, 1930) and for several weeks there has been such imminence of fatal results to the life and health of appellant as to require his removal from the county jail; that in the latter part of December, 1929, and again in the latter part of January, 1930, appellant applied to the Superior Court for admission to bail and that both of said applications were denied; that the denial of said applications m the Superior Court, under the circumstances fully set out in the affidavits, testimony and proceedings before that court, was an abuse of the discretion lodged in said court; that appellant…