Taylor

Defendant Walter J. Taylor was found guilty by a jury of violating Penal Code section 496 (receiving stolen property) and Penal Code section 12021 (possession of a concealable firearm by one previously convicted of a felony). He acted as his own attorney at the trial. His appeal is from the nonappealable “verdict” which we shall treat (as obviously intended) as an appeal from the judgment imposing two concurrent terms in the state prison. (See In re Gonsalves, 48 Cal.2d 638, 642-643 [ 311 P.2d 483 ]; People v. Walker, 215 Cal.App.2d 609, 611 [ 30 Cal.Rptr. 440 ]; People v. Burroughs, 200 Cal.App.2d 629, 634 [ 19 Cal.Rptr. 344 ].)

Following the substantial evidence rule we state the evidence which tends to support Taylor’s conviction. (See People v. Daugherty, 40 Cal.2d 876, 885 [ 256 P.2d 911 ].)

In the predawn of the morning of August 21, 1967, a police officer was driving an unmarked vehicle in an area where many burglaries had recently occurred. He saw a man’s head behind some parked automobiles directly in front of an apartment building at 2404 Fulton Street in Berkeley. The person suddenly “darted” across the street and disappeared in a direction away from the…