People v. King

The appellant was charged in an information in Los Angeles County with having marijuana in his possession. In a nonjury trial the appellant was found guilty on March 25, 1959. On April 22, 1959, a motion for a new trial was denied. Proceedings were suspended and probation was granted for five years conditioned, among other things, upon his spending nine months in the county jail. The appellant filed a notice of appeal “from the judgment—rendered on the 25th of March, 1959” and “the denial of a motion for a new trial rendered on the 22nd day of April, 1959, and the sentence pronounced on the…