People v. Ross

Defendant was convicted of burglary in the first degree, and appealed from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

When the jewelry store of Albert Samuels & Company, at the corner of Fifth and Market Streets, San Francisco, was closed on the evening of January 19, 1922, there were eight strings of pearls, valued at several thousand dollars, left on display in the show-window. The clerk who closed the store returned the following morning at 8:30 o’clock, to find the glass window broken and the pearls missing. On the 7th of February, 19-22, the defendant was arrested…