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PEOPLE v. BERGER

Docket No. Crim. 5664.

44 Cal.2d 459 (1955)

282 P.2d 509

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ALFRED BERGER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 27, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris M. Grupp for Appellant.

Charles R. Garry, Norman Leonard, George Olshausen and Leo R. Friedman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Elizabeth Miller and Arlo E. Smith, Deputy Attorneys General, Thomas C. Lynch, District Attorney (City and County of San Francisco), William B. Acton and Irving F. Reichert, Jr., Assistant District Attorneys, for Respondent.

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney (Los Angeles), William H. Parker, Chief of Police, Bourke Jones, James A. Doherty and Alan G. Campbell, Assistant City Attorneys, Ralph Eubank, Deputy City Attorney, J.F. Coakley, District Attorney (Alameda), R. Robert Hunter, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Maury Engel, Bernard M. King and John C. Baldwin, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

Defendant was indicted for conspiracy to commit grand and petty theft and conspiracy to solicit for charitable purposes without a permit. (Pen. Code, § 182; San Francisco Police Code, § 590.) He appeals from the judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty on both counts and from the order denying his motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment.

Defendant employed several solicitors to obtain money for a publicity...

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