From Casetext: Smarter Legal Research

People v. Merritt Higbee

Court of Appeal of California, First District, Division One
Apr 6, 1925
72 Cal.App. 196 (Cal. Ct. App. 1925)

Opinion

Docket No. 1258.

April 6, 1925.

APPLICATION for Writ of Probable Cause for appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Mateo County resulting in conviction. George H. Buck, Judge. Application granted.

The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

Ernest B.D. Spagnoli and Walter F. Lynch for Appellant.

U.S. Webb, Attorney-General, and Wm. F. Cleary, Deputy Attorney-General, for Respondent.


The defendant in this case was convicted in the superior court of San Mateo County of a felony, to wit, burglary of the second degree, and was sentenced to be imprisoned in the state prison. He has appealed from the judgment of conviction to this court and the appeal has been perfected. The trial court, on application by appellant, refused to grant a certificate of probable cause for the appeal, denied appellant a stay of execution until such time as the record on appeal should be filed in this court, and appellant has been removed to the state prison as a result of said judgment and sentence.

In the record before us several matters in the proceedings leading to his conviction are indicated by appellant upon which he has based his appeal and which are claimed by him to constitute prejudicial error. [1] From examination of this record we are convinced that the questions raised by appellant are debatable and not frivolous, and, therefore, the trial court having failed to grant the relief to which appellant was entitled, it is ordered that a certificate of probable cause for appeal in this cause be issued.

Tyler, P.J., and Knight, J., concurred.


Summaries of

People v. Merritt Higbee

Court of Appeal of California, First District, Division One
Apr 6, 1925
72 Cal.App. 196 (Cal. Ct. App. 1925)
Case details for

People v. Merritt Higbee

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. MERRITT HIGBEE, Appellant

Court:Court of Appeal of California, First District, Division One

Date published: Apr 6, 1925

Citations

72 Cal.App. 196 (Cal. Ct. App. 1925)
236 P. 929