Court Opinion

ID: 9790143
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:46:44.98546+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:26.462057
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FOURT, J.
I concur in the judgment: This is another case arising in Los Angeles county where the defendant was charged in the information with a prior conviction of a narcotic offense, and a certified copy of the commitment in such prior case was received in evidence without objection. Although the defendant testified in his own behalf, he offered no evidence with reference to the certified copy of the commitment and his attorney stipulated that the person named in the commitment was the defendant.
At the time of the hearing of the defendant’s application for probation the judge said, “The Court makes no finding as to the question of priors.” Sentence was then imposed upon the defendant as though he were a first offender, contrary to the clear wording of the statutes made and provided in such cases. See concurring opinion in People v. Rixner, 157 Cal.App. 387, at pages 392-393 [321 P.2d 91], and opinion in People v. Barbera, *(Cal.App.) 323 P.2d 815.
Appellant’s petition for a hearing by the Supreme Court was denied June 17, 1958.

A hearing was granted by the Supreme Court on June 4, 1958. The final opinion of that court is reported in 50 Cal.2d - [328 P.2d 973].