Howard

The defendant was convicted of the crime of grand larceny, and appeals from the judgment of conviction and the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The information is in three counts, each stating a different offense, viz.: The first charging the larceny of $305 in money, the second the embezzlement of said sum, and the third the receiving of said money knowing it to have been previously stolen.

The attack upon the verdict is upon numerous grounds, which, generally stated, are that the court erred in overruling the demurrer to the information, in disallowing certain voir dire questions by the defendant to a certain juror, in denying the challenge by the defendant of a certain venireman upon the ground of actual bias, in refusing to require the people to make an election of the particular count of the several set out in the information upon which they intended to rely, in refusing to allow the defendant thirty peremptory challenges, the theory being that he was entitled to ten such challenges upon each of the offenses stated in the information, in its rulings upon questions involving the legal propriety of the admissibility of certain evidence, and in disallowing certain…