Peppa

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of grand larceny and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The amended information upon which the trial was had contains four counts. Upon only one of them was defendant convicted and sentenced. This count charges defendant with the larceny of a check of the value of three hundred dollars, the personal property of the complaining witness, one Bernard Erb, and alleges that it was stolen by defendant on February 24, 1925. It is claimed that the verdict convicting defendant of this charge is contrary to law and to the evidence.

There was evidence tending to establish these facts: The complaining witness, before his first meeting with defendant, was the owner of a few shares of the capital stock of the Gold Ridge Mining Company, an Arizona corporation maintaining offices in the city of Los Angeles. Two or three days before the complaining witness met defendant the latter was introduced to the secretary of the Gold Ridge Mining Company. Defendant represented to the secretary that he, defendant, was a man who had acquired experience in promoting mining corporations and that he could be of some assistance to the company in…