Willison
People v. Willison
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Conrey, J.
These appeals include two actions which were consolidated for trial. In action 42,098 the defendant was accused of burglary committed on September 12, 1930, at the house of one Katayama in the city of Arcadia. In said action it was further charged that before the commission of said offense the defendant on May 11, 1925, was convicted of burglary in the county of Los Angeles; and in April, 1911, was convicted of grand larceny in Sonoma County, and in April, 1908, was convicted of petit larceny with prior conviction in the county of Alameda; and for each of said offenses served a term of imprisonment in a penal institution. In action 42,179 defendant was -accused of the crime of burglary committed on September 13, 1930, at the house of one Vanderbeek in the city of Pomona.
The points on appeal, as stated in the brief for appellant, are substantially as follows: First: That the evi deuce is not sufficient to justify the verdict in either one of the two actions in this, that the evidence shows merely that the defendant was found in possession of certain stolen property, but that this evidence was not accompanied by other and additional evidence sufficient to support the verdict.…