People v. Williams

The defendant was informed against for the crime of grand larceny. Upon his trial he was convicted of petit larceny and, having suffered a previous conviction of felony, which he confessed on arraignment, was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison at San Quentin. He now appeals from the judgment of conviction and an order denying his motion for a new trial, and also from an order denying his motion in arrest of judgment.

[1] It will be unnecessary to comment further upon the attempted appeal from the order denying defendant’s motion in arrest of judgment than to say that there is no authority for such appeal. (People v. Matuszewski, 138 Cal. 533 , [ 71 Pac. 701 ]; People v. Mullen, 7 Cal. App. 547 , [ 94 Pac. 867 ].)

No claim is made by the defendant that the verdict of the jury is not supported by the evidence, the grounds urged for the reversal of the judgment and order denying a new trial being that the trial court erred in its rulings upon the admissibility of evidence upon three separate occasions, thereby committing error of such substantial weight .as to entitle the defendant to a reversal of the judgment rendered against him, and to have this cause remanded for a…