Arnest
People v. Arnest
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Plummer, J.
The defendants were convicted of grand theft and of burglary in the second degree, upon an information in two counts charging them with the two offenses, in the following language, to wit: “That on or about the 30th day of August, 1932, in the county of Placer, state of California, they did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously steal and take the following described property, to-wit: 9 cases of cigarettes, of the reasonable and fair market value of $576.00, which said cases of cigarettes were then and there in the possession of the Southern Pacific Company, a corporation, as bailee, in a certain railroad car, Southern Pacific No. 25362, which car was in train No. 486, prosecuting its trip through the counties of Placer and Nevada, state of California, and which said cases of cigarettes were at the said time the personal property of another, and not the property of the defendants, with the felonious intent then and there to commit the crime of grand theft. ’ ’
Count 2 of the information, in its charging part, reads as follows: “That on or about the 30th day of August, 1932, in the county of Placer, state of California, they did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and…