People v. Oubridge

THE COURT.

The defendant was charged by information with the crime of attempting to pass a fictitious check and with a prior conviction of forgery. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced under the indeterminate sentence law.

The only point urged for reversal is that the court erred in permitting the district attorney to ask defendant, who had taken the stand in his own behalf, upon cross-examination if he had ever been convicted of a felony. It has been held that “where a defendant, though admitting the charge of prior' conviction upon arraignment, becomes a witness in his own behalf, he may be…