Haflinger

Defendant was accused of the crime of grand theft and after trial by jury was found guilty. On October 30, 1927, J. M. Brouillard left his Chevrolet touring car parked on Brand Boulevard, in the city of Glendale. Later in the same day defendant and two others were arrested while driving the car in the city of Beverly Hills. Chief of Police Blair of Beverly Hills, after laying the foundation customary for the admission of confessions, testified that he had a conversation with Haflinger in which the latter confessed that he had stolen the automobile. The witness testified: “He stated that he and Ball had stolen the ear and had come out to Beverly Hills with the intention of trying to stick somebody up, and I asked him why they particularly came to Beverly Hills, and he said because there was a lot of rich people lived there. And that was about the amount of the conversation with him. He stated also that this little fellow had told him-—• Q. By the small man you mean the defendant Ball? A. Yes—that they had pulled a job like this before somewhere in Pasadena and got a dollar and a half.” The foregoing testimony was received by the court without objection by appellant, and no motion…