People v. Grayson

Appellant was convicted in a jury trial of receiving and holding a wager on a horse race, and of a separate offense of recording and registering a wager on a horse race, in violation of subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 337a, Penal Code. He appeals from the judgments, specifying insufficiency of the evidence, erroneous rulings in the admission of evidence, errors in the instructions and alleged misconduct of the prosecutor.

The attack upon the sufficiency of the evidence assumes, as the trial court held, that the prosecuting witness, one Pease, was an accomplice of appellant in each of the…