People v. Gaspard

VALLÉE, J.

In a non jury trial defendant was convicted of having, on October 28, 1958, received money offered as a bet on a horse race. (Pen. Code, § 337a, subd. 3.) He was sentenced to three months in the county jail. Sentence was suspended and he was granted probation. He appeals from the order “entered on the 25th day of March, 1959.” The order referred to is the judgment and an order denying his motion for a new trial.

On October 28, 1958, George Lewis, a Los Angeles police officer, in an undercover capacity went into a poolroom on South Broadway in Los Angeles. He sat at a counter. He saw…