People v. Jones

Defendant was convicted of second degree burglary in a non jury trial. In propria persona defendant filed his notice of appeal “from the decision . . . and from the Order of the Court sentencing the defendant to the State Prison. . . In view of the policy requiring a liberal construction of a notice of appeal in favor of its sufficiency (rule 31(b), Rules on Appeal; In re Gonsalves, 48 Cal.2d 638, 642-643 [311 P.2d 483]), and the decisions in People v. Perkins, 147 Cal.App.2d 793, 797 [305 P.2d 932], and People v. Smith, 164 Cal.App.2d 510, 514 [330 P.2d 678], which view the judgment and…