People v. Ratner

This is an appeal by the People from an order dismissing a complaint which declared, first, that the defend*903ant, on or about the 8th day of October, 1943, had violated section 476 of the Vehicle Code by not stopping his vehicle when he was faced by a traffic control signal which told him to stop, and, second, that within the year the defendant had been convicted of disobeying that same section. The reason given by the trial court for its order of dismissal, and the only argument presented in its defense on this appeal, is that the reference to the prior conviction rendered the complaint…