People v. Cataline

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of grand larceny and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The only question presented for determination is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict.

The evidence tended to show that the property forming the object of the larceny, a Chandler motor-car, belonged to one Grant Falkenstein. The defendant, upon his arrest in San Francisco, denied his identity, but when shown his picture and confronted by a detective from a neighboring city he admitted that his name was Cataline. He also denied that he had stolen the…