PEOPLE v. DEVENY

Docket No. 917.

112 Cal.App.2d 767 (1952)

247 P.2d 128

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. MICHAEL DEVENY, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

August 18, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Anderson for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


MUSSELL, J.

Appellant, with one Leonard Cruz, was charged in an information with the crime of robbery. It was also charged that Cruz was armed with a deadly weapon and that he had been previously convicted of first degree burglary. Appellant Deveny was charged with three previous felony convictions: Violation of the Dyer and Mann Acts, forgery and escape from state prison. Appellant denied the first prior conviction and admitted the other two. A jury trial resulted...

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