Seter

Appellant Forrest H. Seter is one of six defendants indicted and tried for conspiracy to commit theft. Three of said defendants, J. L. Levitt, Wallace Lund and Forrest H. Seter, were convicted. All three appealed but only Seter has filed a brief. Appellants Lund and Levitt were each duly notified by this court, pursuant to California Rules of Court, rule 17 (a) that unless a brief was filed within 30 days or good cause shown their appeals would be dismissed. No such showing has been made; no requests for relief were made; no briefs have been filed or submitted. The appeals of said Lund and Levitt will, therefore, be dismissed. Seter will hereinafter be referred to as appellant.

The conspiracy charged arises out of the activities of appellant and the other convicted defendants in the sale of so-called “memberships” in an organization (incorporated as a nonprofit corporation) known as California State Law Enforcement Officers Association. (Sale of advertising space for a magazine published by and for that organization is also somewhat incidentally involved.)

The theory of the prosecution was that the alleged conspira tors actually schemed to and did obtain this money to be held…