Crotty

Appellant was convicted of grand larceny upon an information which charged that on or about the fourteenth day of May, 1924, in Los Angeles County, California, he did steal, take, and carry away from the person and immediate presence of one Carl Peterson a wallet containing nine dollars in money. The sol© ground of this appeal is an alleged insufficiency of evidence to sustain the judgment.

It appears that on said date, at about 6 o’clock in the afternoon, Peterson visited a market on Main Street, in Los Angeles, where he purchased about sixty cents’ worth of meat, for which he paid with a ton-dollar bill, and received change in silver which he placed in' his pocket, and nine dollars in currency which he inserted in a wallet; the wallet was then placed in his hip pocket, which he buttoned before leaving the market. Peterson then walked to Third Street and over Third Street to Spring Street, where he boarded a north-bound “W” car for his home at Eagle Eock. He testified that the ear was somewhat crowded and that he was compelled to stand about half of the way home, but that he finally obtained a seat which he occupied until he arrived at the end of the line, at Annandale Boulevard…