People v. Dawson

A transfer of this action to this court after decision by the District Court of Appeal was ordered for the reason that we were impressed with the argument of the attorney-general that by the amendment in 1929 (Stats. 1929, pp. 1384, 1930, to sections 1168 and 1203 of the Penal Code it was unnecessary after the enactment of said amendments in a case where the defendant was charged with a prior conviction of a felony to either plead or prove that said defendant had served a term of imprisonment in a penal institution under said prior conviction. Whatever may be the force or effect of said…