Kelso
People v. Kelso
Opinion
Lead Opinion
McFARLAND, J.
The defendant was convicted of burglary, and appeals from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.
The only point made by appellant which calls for special notice is, that there was a failure of the prosecution to prove the alleged locus delicti. This point rests upon the fact that it is averred in the information that the alleged offense was committed by burglariously, etc., entering the “house, room, apartment, tenement, shop, warehouse, store, and building of one M. B. Quigg, being known and designated as room No. 32 of that certain building situated at No. 406 Sutter Street in the city and county of San Francisco,” and that there was no evidence that the premises of Miss Quigg were designated as “room No. 32.” This contention is not maintainable. The information contained a sufficiently full description of the place where the burglary was alleged to have been committed, independent of the phrase giving to it a certain number. It gave the name of the street and the number of the house thereon in which Miss Quigg had her apartments, which were shown by the evidence to have been used as a millinery establishment, and alleged that the burglary was…