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PEOPLE v. ARTIS

Docket No. D017197.

20 Cal.App.4th 1024 (1993)

25 Cal. Rptr.2d 63

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CHESTER CRITON ARTIS, Defendant and Respondent.

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

November 3, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Edwin L. Miller, Jr., District Attorney, and Thomas F. McArdle, Deputy District Attorney, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Francis J. Bardsley, Richard P. Siref and Jack A. Hochman, under appointments by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

WORK, J.

The People appeal a judgment of dismissal after the court determined an embezzlement by a tenant could not be charged under Penal Code1 section 484, the general theft statute, because the rule that a specific statute controls over general statutes requires prosecutors to charge such offenses as violations of section 507. For the following reasons, we reverse the judgment.

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