PEOPLE v. SHIRLEY

Docket No. Crim. 6729.

55 Cal.2d 521 (1961)

360 P.2d 33

11 Cal. Rptr. 537

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. TRESSIE NEAL SHIRLEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 9, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.M. Lopes for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, and S. Clark Moore, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


GIBSON, C.J.

After a jury trial, defendant was found guilty of grand theft under an indictment charging that she unlawfully took $1,811 of funds of Tulare County between October 1, 1958, and April 30, 1959. Imposition of sentence was suspended for three years, and she was granted probation. She has appealed from the order granting probation and from an order denying a new trial. (Pen. Code, § 1237.)

Defendant received welfare aid for herself and minor...

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