Legal Opinion
People v. Spearman
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 19, 1969No. Crim. 15168PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
REPPY, J.
In an information accusing defendant of the violation of Penal Code section 667 (petty theft with prior), he was charged with having suffered six previous convictions of felonies for which he had served a period of imprisonment. (Hereafter, for brevity, we will refer simply to the charged “priors.”) Despite some confusing language on the part of counsel for the prosecution about the first prior being set up as part of the corpus of the crime and despite the preparation of the verdict forms (apparently by the district attorney), so as to have one for the crime (petty theft and…
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