People v. Temple

This appeal is from a judgment of guilty of (1) criminal conspiracy to cheat and defraud by criminal means, and (2) 24 counts of grand theft. There is also an appeal from the motion denying a new trial.

Facts

The evidence disclosed principally through a witness Temple, an admitted accomplice of defendant, that the Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corporation purchased its scrap metal through brokers, among whom were A-l Iron and Metal Company, Eastern Iron and Metal Company and J. Levin & Sons.

When a driver of a truck loaded with scrap metal entered the Bethlehem company’s gate he was required to…