People v. Gillispie

The defendant was found guilty by a jury of the crime of child stealing, a felony, and the jury also found that he had suffered two prior convictions for felonies. This is an appeal from the judgment based upon the verdict, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

It appears from the record that the defendant, who is about twenty-eight years old, came, about May 2, 1929, to reside with his father and stepmother in the town of Elsinore, California. There were other children in the family, including a fifteen year old daughter of defendant’s stepmother, by a former marriage. On May…