Ciani

By an information filed in the Superior Court of Fresno County appellants were charged with the crime of grand theft. It is alleged that they “unlawfully took the property of the Bond Investment Company, a corporation, consisting of 110 sweat-boxes of raisins, of a value in excess of $200.00, in lawful money of the United States.” They were tried upon their pleas of not guilty and the jury found both guilty as charged. Their motion for a new trial was denied and they were sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary for the term prescribed by law.

One Mike Devineentis was charged in a separate information with the same crime. He entered a plea of guilty and was granted probation. He testified as a witness for the People against appellants and furnished the most serious evidence against them.

The record before us shows that Porcelli owned a Dodge truck which was equipped with six wheels, two in front and four in the rear. These wheels carried the following makes of tires: Lee tires on the right front and both right rear wheels; a Goodrich Silvertown heavy duty cord on the left front wheel; a Sampson on the inside left rear wheel and a Goodrich Silvertown cord on the outside…