King

The defendant was tried on an indictment charging him with the larceny of $700 from one Martha J. King. From the judgment which followed his conviction and from the order denying his motion for a new trial he has appealed upon a typewritten record.

The facts of the case are that' the defendant married the complaining witness on March 28, 1925, having met her through a correspondence club of which he was a member, and that on the second day of April following he left the rooms which they were occupying in the city and county of San Francisco, taking with him the sum of $700 in currency which he had persuaded his wife to draw from her bank on that day upon the representation that he would invest the money in a grocery business which he proposed to conduct for their benefit. The defendant was found some time later in the city of San Diego, where his arrest was made.

On this appeal he complains that he was prejudiced by the introduction of evidence showing that a few years before he had married a Mrs. McDonald under similar circumstances and that a short time after his marriage he had separated from her and taken with him the sum of $1,750 of her funds which he had persuaded her to…