Rubal

People v. Rubal

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131 Cal. App. 8·1933 Cal. App. LEXIS 606·20 P.2d 720
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaApril 4, 1933Docket No. 2222.California1,244 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Archbald, J.

Defendant was tried before the court, a jury having been waived, and convicted of the crime of burglary. From the judgment of conviction and from the order denying his motion for a new trial he has appealed.

The sole contention made by appellant for a reversal relates to the alleged insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the judgment and order.

The evidence shows without question that on the night of September 8, 1931, a cleaning and dyeing establishment located at 5006 Avalon Boulevard, Los Angeles, was burglarized. A. L. Irwin, a motor coach driver for the Los Angeles Railway Company, testified that he passed such establishment at about 4:55 A. M. of September 9th and saw a Hudson coach parked on 50th Street, facing Avalon, back of the alley which ran through the block behind the dye-works, and that he saw a young man crossing the vacant lot between 50th Street and the dye-works, coming from toward the front entrance of the place and proceeding in the direction of the Hudson coach; that the latter stepped into the street on the way toward the Hudson but before he reached it someone at the front of the dye-works “hollered”, and that the young man and this other party…

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