Conti

People v. Conti

Good Law
1967 Cal. App. LEXIS 2399·253 Cal. App. 2d 733·61 Cal. Rptr. 424
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaAugust 21, 1967Crim. No. 11523California1,591 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Roth, J.

Appellant was charged by information in four counts with violations of Penal Code, section 337a, subdivisions 1-4, book-making. He waived jury trial. The court found him guilty as charged in count I (§ 337a, subd. 1, book-making and pool-selling); count II, (§ 337a, subd. 2, keeping and occupying premises for book-making and pool-selling); and count III (§ 337a, subd. 3), (receiving, holding and forwarding money in book-making, pool-selling.) He was found not guilty on count IV (§ 337a, subd. 4, recording and registering bets.)

Appellant was sentenced to county jail for 180 days on the *735 three counts, sentences to run concurrently. The sentence was suspended. Appellant was placed on probation for one year, and as a condition of probation, was required to pay a fine of $250.

The sole point raised and argued is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdicts.

At approximately 1 p.m. on January 7, 1965, Officers Knieriem and MacKenzie of the Los Angeles Police Department Central Vice Unit and Glen Groves, a special agent for the Department of Water and Power, arrived at the Department of Water and Power shops on North Main Street to investigate alleged book-malting…

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