State v. Little

This is an appeal from a sentence of life imprisonment under the Habitual Criminal Act (OCLA §§ 26-2801 et seq.) imposed by the circuit court in accordance with the opinion of this court in Little v. Gladden, 202 Or 16, 273 P2d 443.

By his first assignment of error the defendant contends that the court was without jurisdiction to impose the sentence because “appellant was never at any time, either in the case wherein sentence was imposed, or in any other case or proceeding authorized by law, charged with having, or found to have, three previous convictions of felonies.” One answer to this…