People v. Houston

The appellant was charged under section 245 of the Penal Code, by an amended information filed in Butte County, with an assault with a deadly weapon, to wit, a knife, and with three prior convictions of felonies and the serving of sentences therefor in state or federal prisons. The first prior felony was for “larceny after trust and grand larceny,” committed in the District of Columbia. The second prior felony was for perjury committed in the same jurisdiction, with an allegation that he served sentence therefor, and the third prior felony was for “the crime of cow stealing, a felony,”…