People ex rel. Stewart v. Wilson

Appellant contends that he was improperly sentenced as a second offender upon conviction after a plea of guilty of the crime of attempting to commit burglary in the third degree. The certificate of conviction shows that after the conviction an information was filed charging him with having been previously convicted of a felony, that he was properly informed of his rights in connection therewith and stood mute. A jury was thereupon impaneled and found that he was the same person thus previously convicted and he was then sentenced as a second offender. The criminal record attached to the return…