The only issue presented by this appeal is whether the municipal court has the jurisdiction to place a convicted misdemeanant on probation for a period exceeding three years where the maximum time for such sentence of imprisonment that might be pronounced is less than three years.
Penal Code section 1203a covers the matter under consideration. Section 1203a provides in relevant part that the municipal...
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