Sewall

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction and from an order denying his motion for a new trial as to each of two counts in an information in which he was charged respectively with the commission of the crime of grand larceny and the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses.

The principal point relied upon by appellant as to the charge of grand larceny, in substance, is that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict. The gist of the allegation in the count of the information by which defendant was charged with the commission of the crime of grand larceny was that he stole “two deeds of real estate of the value of $2,000.00.” With respect thereto the evidence showed that the prosecuting witness was seventy-seven years of age, totally blind in one eye and the vision so impaired in the other that, as stated by him, “when I go to make a letter, or sign anything, I have to touch the paper before I can start a letter.” Both he and defendant were interested in helping to finance the buying of a steamship for the Liberia Steamship Company. He testified in substance that in a conversation between him and defendant, it was agreed that the prosecuting witness would pledge…