PEOPLE v. GILLIAM

Docket No. 5543.

141 Cal.App.2d 749 (1956)

297 P.2d 468

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. HOWARD N. GILLIAM, Appellant.

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

May 23, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harrison M. Dunham and Harold J. Ackerman for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Emmett Seawell, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


ASHBURN, J.

Convicted of six counts of grand theft (Pen. Code, §§ 484, 487, subd. 1) defendant appeals from the judgment and relies upon the sole claim of insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.

[1] The victims of defendant's false pretenses were incredibly credulous and greedy, but that does not absolve defendant from guilt. On the civil side of the law of fraud it is said: "If the conduct of the plaintiff in the light...

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