White

People v. White

Good Law
1924 Cal. App. LEXIS 478·66 Cal. App. 703·226 P. 962
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaApril 24, 1924Crim. No. 1042.California1,234 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Cxjbtis, J.

The defendant was charged with the crime of forgery. An indictment was also filed against him containing six counts, in four of which he was charged with the crime of grand larceny and in the other two with embezzlement. Both cases were tried together and the jury rendered verdicts finding the defendant guilty of all seven charges. Defendant, appeals from the judgments entered against him, and also from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The only argument made by defendant is upon his contention that the evidence is insufficient to support the judgments rendered against him on the four charges of grand larceny. While the facts in support of these four charges are entirely different, in so far as the names of the parties and the amounts involved are concerned, yet the general plan or scheme followed by the defendant in securing the various sums of money from the several complaining witnesses was practically the same in each of the four transactions. It will not, therefore, be necessary to detail the testimony relating to all four charges, and we will, for the sake of brevity, confine ourselves to a review of the testimony involved in the charge set forth in count one of…

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