People v. Bernstein

Defendant was accused by information of the offense of grand theft. A trial by the court without a jury resulted in a judgment of guilty, from which defendant appeals.

According to the testimony of Elizabeth Hanson, the victim of the alleged theft, as related at the preliminary hearing, she met defendant in a cocktail bar some time before the date of the offense under circumstances described as follows: “I was sitting at a bar and he walked up and sat down beside me and started talking to me.” Thereafter, they were together socially seven or eight times. On the night of the offense, they sat…