PEOPLE v. ABBOTT

Docket No. 6041.

156 Cal.App.2d 601 (1958)

319 P.2d 664

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JAMES FREDERICK ABBOTT et al., Defendants; JAMES WILLIAM ARTHUR NICHOLS, Appellant.

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

January 8, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthews & Hill and Edward I. Gritz for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Elizabeth Miller, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


SHINN, P.J.

James William Arthur Nichols and James Frederick Abbott were accused by information of grand theft in unlawfully taking from the person of Ardith Bell a canvas bag containing $4,528 in money on October 22, 1956. Abbott pleaded guilty and was sentenced to state prison. Nichols pleaded not guilty and the cause was submitted to the court on the transcript of the preliminary hearing. The court found defendant guilty as charged in the information. Nichols made...

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