People v. McShane

The only notice of appeal in this case states that it is taken “from the judgment entered in above entitled matter on January 13, 1954.” The action taken by the trial court on that date was to find the defendant guilty and summarily grant probation. Among other terms of the probation, the trial court imposed a fine of $500 and required that the defendant serve the first 10 days of his three-year probationary period in jail. In a very similar situation the court observed in People v. Hartshorn (1943), 59 Cal.App.2d 285, 286 [138 P.2d 782, 783] : “As no sentence was imposed upon the verdict…