People v. Davis

Appellant was convicted on 23 counts of grand theft. He now demands a reversal of the judgments on the grounds of insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdicts, and errors in giving and in refusing certain instructions.

Sufficiency o-f the Evidence

In April, 1947, appellant was a salesman of used cars. He met certain engineers of an aircraft company and requested them to redesign a three-wheel automobile which he called the 1 ‘ Californian. ’ ’ He was without funds to employ the engineers and had not at that time made any investment whatsoever in his prospective enterprise. Prior to…