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- Title: State v. Hall
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 12, 1960
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 47 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by The defendant, George Oscar Hall, entered a plea of guilty to an information charging him with second-degree burglary and grand larceny. After his plea and before he was sentenced, the state introduced evidence disclosing defendant's prior convictions of felony. He was sentenced to the Kansas state penitentiary for a period of not less than fifteen years under the provisions of G.S. 1949, 21-107a, which provides, in part, that every person convicted of felony a third time shall be confined in the penitentiary for a period of not less than fifteen years. Judgment in such cases shall not be given for the increased penalty, unless the court shall find from the record and other competent evidence the fact of former convictions of felony committed by the prisoner in or out of this state. The sole question raised by defendant is whether the sentence was properly imposed under G.S. 1949, 21-107a, the so-called habitual criminal act, pursuant to a finding of two or more prior convictions of felony based upon certified copies of the prison records of said defendant, furnished and certified, respectively, by the records clerk of the Kansas state industrial reformatory and the records clerk of the Kansas State penitentiary.