People v. Melson

The defendant was convicted of the crime of petit larceny, after having suffered two prior convictions for grand larceny. The information, among other things, alleges that on or about the twenty-second day of November, 1926, in the county of San Joaquin, the defendant did “wil fully and unlawfully steal, take and carry away a quantity of copper wire of the value of $195.00 in gold coin of the Government of the United States and the said property was then and there the personal property of William H. Ford, doing business under the firm name and style of River Rock and Gravel Company.”

Upon this…