State v. King

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing the defendant to life imprisonment upon conviction of the crime of grand larceny and subsequent adjudication of his status as being that of an habitual criminal.

The facts are these: On November 19, 1926, in cause number 2962 of the superior court for Yakima county, appellant, Jerry King, was charged by information with the crime of grand larceny. On the following day he entered a plea of guilty upon the accusation, and immediately thereafter the court entered a judgment finding and decreeing him to be guilty of the offense charged, but imposing no…