Eley
People v. Eley
Opinion
lead Opinion
Barnard, J.
The defendants were jointly charged in an information which will be hereafter referred to as the first information, with the crime of grand theft, it being alleged that they wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously took the sum of $10,000, being the personal property of Charles Joachim and Ida Joachim. They were also charged in a second information with the crime of grand theft, this information containing three counts, in the first of which they ■ were charged with feloniously taking $500 from J. C. Black, and in the second and third of which they were charged with thus taking the respective sums of $351.50 and $485 from one Marie Anderson. The two actions were consolidated and tried before a jury. Both defendants were found guilty of the charge set forth in the first information. The defendant C. W. Bley was found guilty on all three counts of the second information, and the defendant Ella Bley was found not guilty as to said three counts. The defendant Ella Bley was granted probation and judgment was pronounced against the defendant C. W. Bley after denial of his motion for a new trial. The defendant C. W. Bley has appealed from this order and from the judgment.