PEOPLE v. ROCHA

Docket No. 5258.

130 Cal.App.2d 656 (1955)

279 P.2d 836

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOE ROCHA, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

February 10, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Levy, Bernard & Jaffe, Samuel R. Tannenbaum and F. Filmore Jaffe for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and William E. James, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


FOX, J.

Defendant was convicted of grand theft. (Pen. Code, § 487, subd. 1.) Although proceedings were suspended and probation granted, he appeals from the judgment* and the order denying his motion for a new trial.

On June 1, 1952, George E. Atkinson, Jr., leased a 560 acre ranch which he and his wife owned in Tulare County to the defendant for a term of three years. The total rental for that period was $54,000. The lease...

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