People v. Lizarraga

Opinion

FRIEDMAN, Acting P. J.

An amended information charged defendant with selling heroin (Health & Saf. Code, § 11352) and also charged a prior conviction of the same offense. Represented by counsel, defendant waived a jury trial, and a date was set for trial before the court, sitting without a jury. On the trial date he appeared and, through counsel, expressed readiness to admit the prior conviction. He was then tried and found guilty. He appeals from the judgment.

Defendant charges constitutional infirmity of the trial court’s recitation of the rights he was waiving by admitting the prior…