Conti
People v. Conti
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…