People v. Superior Court

The essential facts herein are that one Jack Coffee having pleaded “guilty” to a charge of petit larceny contained in an information theretofore filed against him in the superior court, and at the same time having admitted the additional fact (also charged against him in said information) that prior to the date on which said offense was committed he had been convicted of a felony and had “served a term therefor in a penal institution”,—on application made by him to the superior court for probation, by an order of said court the said application was granted. Thereupon a petition for a writ of…