Koenig

Each of the defendants was convicted by a jury on two counts of “contributing to delinquency” and appeal from the judgment of conviction and from the order of the trial court denying their motions for a new trial. It is urged in appellants’ brief that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdicts, also that appellants’ rights Avere prejudiced by certain rulings, claimed to be erroneous, made by the trial court on questions involving the admission of testimony. No authority is cited in support of this claim of error as to a single ruling, counsel being content merely to quote from the transcript of testimony many short passages showing the question, objection and ruling. In this situation the remarks of the court in Gray v. Walker, 157 Cal. 381 , at page 386 [ 108 Pac. 278, 280 ], are apropos: ‘ ‘ Certain errors in admitting or excluding evidence are specified. The objections, rulings, and exceptions are merely stated in appellant’s brief, without any citation of authority or any argument beyond the bald declaration that ‘in deciding these objections against the defendant the court erred’. We do not feel called upon to consider points so presented.” (Citing cases.)

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