Kelly

The defendant was charged with the crime of grand larceny and was convicted. He appeals from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The facts of the case show that on New Year’s eve in the year 1914, he was observed by two detectives crowding and crushing in a throng of merry-makers on Market Street, San Francisco. The detectives, being there on the lookout for pick-pockets, paid particular attention to the defendant, and observed him lean around the body of an individual in the crowd, extend his hand, which, when he withdrew, the detectives grasped and found in it a purse containing seventy-five dollars in United States currency and gold coin. Thereupon the defendant said to the officers, “You’ve got me cold,” and offered money to one of the officers if he and his brother officer would release him and relieve him from arrest.

We think the evidence recited concerning the conduct of the defendant while in the crowd is sufficient circumstantially to show the corpus delicti, and that therefore the statement of the defendant involving an admission of guilt was properly admitted in evidence against him.

We think the district attorney was guilty of grave…