Feigelman

People v. Feigelman

Good Law
1924 Cal. App. LEXIS 612·65 Cal. App. 319·223 P. 579
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJanuary 17, 1924Crim. No. 1012.California1,198 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Conrey, J.

By indictment in ease superior court number 16,949, defendant was charged with grand larceny from the person of one Bernard Odell, committed on the third day of August, 1921. By information in case superior court number 18,925, he was charged with grand larceny from the person of Willett Woolsey, committed on the ninth day of September, 1922. By order of court the two cases were consolidated and thereafter were tried at the same time. The defendant was convicted on both counts and thereafter was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison. He appeals from each judgment and in each case from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

Section 954 of the Penal Code authorizes the court to order the consolidation of two or more criminal actions where the indictments or informations charge the commission of two or more different offenses of the same class of crimes or offenses. The fact that the two crimes charged against the defendant were committed, the one more than a year after the other, does not in our opinion furnish any ground for the claim that the court abused its discretion in consolidating said actions and causing them to be tried at the same time.

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