People v. Richardson

Convicted by a jury in the superior court of Sacramento of the crime of grand larceny, as charged in an information previously filed in said court, the defendant has broug’ht the case to this court by an appeal from the judgment and the order denying him a new trial.

Although the transcript containing the record of the case was filed in this court on the twenty-sixth day of March, 1926, no brief in behalf of defendant in support of his appeals has ever been filed herein. The cause was regularly placed on the calendar of this court for its September term to be heard, and counsel for defendant duly notified of that fact, but neither counsel nor the defendant appeared to present an oral argument in support of the appeals when the cause was called for hearing and argument. The attorney-general, upon the situation thus explained as to the appeals, moved that the cause be submitted for consideration and decision upon the record and a brief filed by him, and a submission was accordingly ordered.

The facts briefly stated are: On the fourteenth day of November, 1925, a short time before the hour of 6 o’clock P. M., one H. S. Parker parked his automobile (a Chevrolet coupe) on Ninth…