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Criminal Law And Procedure - Habitual Criminal Act - Prior Convictions - Pleading And Trial

Michigan Law Review

The petitioner was charged with grand larceny and was convicted by a jury. The court thereafter made a finding that the petitioner had previously been convicted of two other felonies, and that he had served a term in the Kansas penitentiary for one felony and a term in the Missouri penitentiary for the other. On that finding and the verdict of the jury, the court sentenced the petitioner to life imprisonment under a Kansas statute which prescribed increased penalties for habitual offenders. Held, that the prior convictions need not be charged in the information and that the petitioner was …