Matuszewski

The defendant was charged with the crime of petit larceny and a prior conviction of another petit larceny. He confessed the prior conviction, and a jury found him guilty of the larceny charged. He appeals from a judgment sentencing him to three years in the state prison and from an order denying him a new trial. The only point made by him is to the effect that the “former conviction” was not properly charged in the information. That part of the information reads as follows: “The said A. J. Matuszewski is accused by the district attorney of and for the county of Los Angeles, state of California, by this information, of the crime of petit larceny, after a prior conviction of petit larceny, committed as follows: That on the sixth day of October, 1899, by a judgment of the police court of Los Angeles City, county of Los Angeles, state of California, the said A. J. Matuszewski, therein charged as John Doe Matezuski, was duly convicted of the crime of petit larceny, committed as follows: That the said A. J. Matuszewski, at and in the city of Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, state aforesaid, did willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously take, steal, and carry away one set of single…