People v. Sama

Appellant was accused, by information filed on January 5, 1921, of the crime of attempt to commit robbery, to which he pleaded not guilty, and upon the trial was found “guilty of an attempt to.commit robbery as charged in the information.” The judgment purports to be rendered under the indeterminate sentence law, and provides that appellant “be confined in the state prison of the state of California as prescribed by law. ’ ’ From that judgment appellant takes this appeal.

The only question presented on appeal is whether the judgment is invalid because under the sentence a definite maximum…