Cronevitch
People v. Cronevitch
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Houser, J.
Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction on each of three several' charges of burglary against him, and from an order of the trial court denying his motion for a new trial thereon.
It is first urged by appellant that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict. The case against defendant was the burglarizing of rooms in certain hotels in the city of Los Angeles. Among other things, it was shown in evidence that the stolen property, consisting of money and jewelry, was taken without the consent of either of the several owners thereof; that at the time each of the burglaries was committed defendant was registered as a guest at the particular hotel from a room of which the property was stolen; that when defendant was arrested, among other things, the following articles were found in his possession, to wit: three files and a small pinch-bar, besides two talcum powder cans, each having a false bottom and containing some of the stolen property and the complete parts of seventeen detachable skeleton keys. Defendant stated that the stolen property in' his possession had been taken from the designated rooms in the hotels which had been burglarized. He also gave the…