Solomon

The defendant appeals from an order denying a new trial, and from a judgment convicting him of the crime of buying and receiving stolen goods, as defined in section 496 of the Penal Code.

It is objected, first, that the evidence is insufficient to convict, for the reason that there is no corroboration of the testimony of the thief and accomplice, W. II. Eldred, of whom defendant received the stolen goods. It appears by evidence, independent of the testimony of Eldred, that the defendant was in possession of the stolen clothes which he is charged with receiving soon after they were stolen, and deposited them in the back room of a saloon, telling the bar-keeper that he had loaned $2.50 on them; that he would take them out the next morning, and that if an old soldier called,* and paid $2.50, to let him have them; that defendant was a dealer in second-hand clothes, and his place of business was right beside this saloon; that he did not call for the clothes as he said he would, but let them remain in the back room of the saloon until discovered by an officer, four or five days after they were stolen; that defendant sold a pair of pants, part of this clothing, for $1, before his…