People v. Cantu

In the first count of an information the defendant Cantu and Noel Mathew Burns and Ronald Joseph Biffath were accused of the crime of conspiracy to violate section 288a of the Penal Code; it was alleged that the offense occurred on or about August 19, 1961. In the second count Cantu alone was accused of having violated section 288a of the Penal Code on or about August 11, 1961. It was further alleged that he had suffered a prior conviction of the crime of forgery, a felony. In a nonjury trial he was found to be guilty as charged. Having been sentenced to the state prison, the defendant Cantu…