People v. McDowell

The defendant herein was tried on two charges of robbery in the first degree and convicted thereof by a jury on April 12, 1945. An information was filed against him charging the commission of a prior felony while in the service, namely that he “ was duly by law convicted of the crime of assault with intent to resist lawful detention, and was sentenced to be confined for a period of twenty-four months.”

He was tried on this information and adjudged to be the same person mentioned in the information. He was thereupon sentenced by me as a second felony offender to State prison for an…