People v. Hoover

Defendant James Hoover was convicted by a jury in the Superior Court of Yolo County on April 7, 1930, of murder of the second degree. Having suffered a prior conviction, he was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison at Folsom and is now incarcerated there. Long after this judgment had become final, and on September 11, 1931, he filed a motion in the Superior Court of Yolo County to set aside and vacate said judgment of conviction of murder upon the ground that he was held to answer to the superior court for the murder of Roy Smith and was tried in the superior court and convicted of…