Rollins

The defendant was found guilty of the crime of grand larceny as charged. He moved for a new trial, and this motion being denied, he was sentenced to im prisonment in the state prison for the term of ten years. This appeal is from the judgment.

Briefly the facts of the case are as follows: Three men, Williams, Ameral and Wilson, with the defendant Rollins, doing business under the.name of “The Hypatia Mining and Development Company,” entered into an arrangement for cheating and defrauding a certain class of laborers. Pursuant to this arrangement they caused an advertisement to appear in a newspaper, in answer to which nineteen or twenty men called at the office of the defendant and were there collectively told by Williams that the Hypatia Mining and Development Company was organizing a party of twenty-five to go to Alaska to work on mining claims owned by defendant Rollins and to locate mining claims on property which had been prospected by said Rollins; that said defendant had tried on other occasions to get men to go there and do this mining work, but that after arriving there other companies by offering better pay had enticed them away; that consequently on this occasion, to…