People v. Ong Git

The defendant prosecutes this appeal from the judgment finding him guilty of grand larceny and sentencing him to a term of four years in the state prison.

His claim that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict must be sustained.

The evidence shows that about 10 o’clock on the night of February 15, 1910, at Waverly place in the city and county of San Francisco, someone grabbed from the head of Lee Gin, a Chinese woman, three ornaments which she then had in her hair, of the value of about $80. The thief immediately ran off with the ornaments. She did not pretend to identify the defendant, did not see his face, but said that the size, dress and general appearance of the thief were about the same as defendant; that the thief was quite tall. At the time the crime was committed Gin Shee, the sister in law of the woman who was robbed, was with her. She did not see the thief’s face, and could not identify defendant as the thief. She testified that the person who grabbed the ornaments had on dark clothes and a dark hat, but she could not say how they compared with the clothes of defendant; that) the figure of the thief was about medium. The witness Dolan testified that he was…