People v. Deininger

This appeal taken by notice in open court by defendants Deininger and Turner, charged jointly with one Zimmerman, is from a judgment of conviction of grand theft and from orders denying motions of the two appellants for new trials.

The facts of the case are as follows: The complaining witness E. L. Mathewson conducted a used ear business in the city of Oakland. On March 30, 1939, defendant and appellant Deininger, codefendant Zimmerman, and a seventeen-year-old boy, one Stratton, started in Zimmerman’s ear for Mathewson’s place of business. About two blocks from the place, the Stratton boy was…