California Supreme Court April 15, 1872, No. 3,023 (People v. Bowen)

By the Court,

Wallace, C. J.:

On the trial of the prisoner upon an indictment for the alleged crime of grand larceny, one Davis was permitted to testify as a witness. Davis had been convicted of divers felonies in the Courts of the State, for which he had been adjudged to suffer and had suffered imprisonment in the Penitentiary.