Stevenson

Appellant was charged by in formation filed April 24, 1929, with the crime of grand theft. He was tried by the court sitting without a jury, trial by jury having been waived by appellant, his counsel and the district attorney, and was found guilty on one of the two counts of the information and not guilty on the other. A motion for new trial was made and denied.

The first count, on which appellant was convicted and sentenced, was as follows: “The said William J. Stevenson is accused by the District Attorney of and for the County of Los Angeles, State of California, by this information of the crime of Grand Theft, a felony, committed as follows : That the said William J. Stevenson, on or about the 29th day of April, 1927, at and in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, did unlawfully take away thirty-five (35) Metropolitan Mortgage Company Collateral Trust Gold Bonds of the total value of Thirty-one Thousand, Six Hundred Sixty-six and sixty-seven hundredths ($31,666.67) Dollars, lawful money of the United States, the personal property of one E. Bailey Webb.” One of the grounds urged by appellant for a reversal of the judgment is that no crime is charged against the…