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This is an appeal from an order denying the defendant's petition for a writ of error coram noMs and an appeal from an order denying a rehearing.

In an information filed in Los Angeles County on April 1, 1941, the defendant was charged in Count One through Three, Five, Seven and Eight with the crime of robbery while armed with a concealed deadly weapon, namely a revolver. In Counts Four and Six the defendant was charged with the crime of kidnapping for the purpose of robbery while armed with a concealed deadly weapon, namely a revolver. In Count Nine the defendant was charged with the crime of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to commit murder while armed with a concealed deadly weapon, namely a revolver.

It was also charged in the information that the defendant had previously been convicted of two felonies and that he had served a term in prison for each of such offenses, the first of such prior conviction being for robbery in Utah about October 26, 1926, and the second for robbery in California about February 27, 1931.

The defendant was represented by the public defender and entered a plea of not guilty and denied the prior convictions on or about April 9, 1941. On…