Sharlow

Appellant, in a trial by jury, was convicted of four counts of violating Penal Code, sections 484 and 487, subdivision 1: Grand Theft. He appeals from the judgment.

On numerous occasions beginning in 1959 and ending in 1961, appellant placed advertisements in local newspapers as follows: “Shrimp hauls, L.A.-N.Y., two weeks on, two weeks off, $800.00 a month net, $3,500 required. . . . ’ ’

*598 On four occasions which constitute the basis for the criminal action at bench, the four separate victims answered said advertisement. When appellant met each victim, he represented to each severally that in exchange for $3,500 he would transfer to each a one-half interest in a truck owned by appellant and thereafter the truck thus jointly owned by appellant and the victim would be used exclusively by the victim to make hauls of shrimp in a two-week round-trip schedule to the East coast and that each haul would net a profit of $800.

Appellant also represented to each victim that each would have return loads from the East, that they would work on a two week on and two week off basis and that the hauls would involve frozen foods exclusively.

The testimony showed that each of the victims did…