DAWSON v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. 17021.

138 Cal.App.2d 685 (1956)

292 P.2d 574

JEWEL DAWSON, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

January 26, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dodge & Evans for Petitioner.

J.F. Coakley, District Attorney, R. Robert Hunter, Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Wayne M. Hooper, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondents.


BRAY, J.

This petition for writ of prohibition raises primarily the interesting question as to whether the taking of a series of payments of welfare benefits based upon one false representation constitutes grand theft or merely petty thefts.

RECORD

Petitioner was charged in an information with two counts of grand theft and one count of violation of section 1550, Welfare and Institutions Code (perjury...

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