Garcia

A jury convicted Andres Alvares Garcia of four counts of grand theft (Pen. Code, § 487), six counts of filing a false document with the court (Pen. Code, § 115), and one count of conspiracy (Pen. Code, § 182). He was sentenced to prison and appeals, claiming his cross-examination of a key prosecution witness was improperly curtailed, there was insufficient evidence to support the false filing counts, and his conviction of four counts of grand theft should be reduced to one. We reject his contentions and affirm.

Facts

Garcia worked as a bail bondsman for Jiminez Bail Bonds in Indio. Jiminez was owned by Tony Jiminez, who also owned Capital Bond and Insurance Company, the surety for Jiminez Bail Bonds. Tony’s brother, Tom, who died some time before this trial, ran Jiminez Bail Bonds. Tom and Garcia together wrote bonds that had not been originally issued by Capital, as they should have been. They failed to report the bonds to Capital and did not forward to the surety a percentage of the premiums they collected for issuing the bonds. When the bonds began “going bad,” Tony was notified by the court and he had the district attorney’s office begin an investigation which…