PEOPLE v. WHITNEY

Docket No. 928.

121 Cal.App.2d 515 (1953)

263 P.2d 449

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ELLSWORTH W. WHITNEY, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

November 24, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Nixon for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Leo J. Vander Lans, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


BARNARD, P.J.

The defendant was found guilty of grand theft by embezzlement, and he has appealed from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The complaining witness, Smith, became of age in 1943, and entitled to the possession of a trust fund of some $200,000 which was being held for him by a Detroit bank. Since he was 16 years old he had been intimately acquainted with the defendant, having lived in his home at times, and had...

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