People v. Hall

Opinion

BIRD, C. J.

This court must decide whether the trial court’s refusal to accept a criminal defendant’s admission of a prior felony conviction was reversible error. A separate issue concerns the failure of a codefendant’s attorney to move for severance of his client’s trial.

I

Appellants, Robert Edward Hall and Stanley Edward Nichols, were charged by information with the joint commission of a robbery (Pen. Code, § 211). Two additional robbery counts and three counts of ex-felon in possession of a concealable firearm were also filed against Hall (§ 12021). Both appellants were alleged to…