Bartlett, J.: The appellant makes the further point, that the statute under which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for a term, the minimum of which, shall be not less than one year, and the maximum shall be not more than one year and nine months, is unconstitutional. Section 687a of the Penal Code was enacted in 1901, presumably in the interest of defendants who had never before' been convicted of a…
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