People v. Williams

The defendant was convicted of the crime of burglary of the first degree and appeals from the judgment of conviction and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The building burglarized is on 4th Street, between L and M, in the city of Sacramento, in what the appellant describes in his closing brief as “the densely populated oriental section of the city.” The owner left the building on Saturday evening, October 1, 1921, at 8:30, and on his return the next morning at 8:30 he discovered that the place had been entered from the rear and fifteen pairs of trousers, eight or nine coats, and between fifty and sixty shirts stolen. The defendant was arrested October 5th. Prior to his arrest the defendant sold two of the stolen shirts to a man on the street and a pair of the stolen trousers at a second-hand store, signing the name “Harry Wilson” instead of his own at the latter place. At the trial he denied having sold the two shirts but admitted that he sold the trousers. He denied having signed the name ‘1 Harry Wilson. ’ ’ In explaining his possession of the trousers, he testified that on the fourth day of October there were ten or twelve men gambling under the Yolo end of…