Lesser

The defendant was charged in an information filed by the district attorney with the commission of seven felonies. The first count of the information alleged the crime of grand theft, while the remaining six counts charged defendant with a violation of the Corporate Securities Act, in that he acted as a broker in the sale of stock of the Hollywood Business Properties, a corporation, without being licensed by the commissioner of corporations as a broker. The defendant was found guilty by the jury of the charge of grand theft and on five of the six counts of violation of the Corporate Securities Act. From the judgment entered upon the verdicts and from the order of the court denying defendant’s motion for a new trial, defendant appeals.

The evidence, as introduced at the trial, discloses the following facts: The complaining witnesses were mother and daughter residing together. The mother was a woman in her seventies, and the daughter had been a teacher of physical education. The defendant called upon the mother and daughter, ostensibly in reference to certain property owned by the mother' in San Deigo County. During the course of the conversation, defendant introduced the subject of…