In Re Bates

— January 21, 1941, the prosecuting attorney of Canyon County appeared before a justice of the peace thereof and verified and filed an amended criminal complaint wherein he accused Albert Bates, appellant herein, of the crime of grand larceny and of being a persistent violater of law. Thereafter a preliminary examination was held before a justice of the peace, sitting as a magistrate, which resulted in an order that appellant answer in the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, for Canyon County, to the charge of being a persistent violator of law.

The prosecuting attorney filed an…