People v. Gordon

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment of conviction for the crime of embezzlement. Persuasive testimony offered by the prosecution in support of the charges filed against him showed the facts to be substantially as follows:

In December, 1919, one James E. Fisher bought from Robert Marsh & Company of Los Angeles four $1,000 bonds. In October, 1921, he made an unsuccessful attempt to collect the amount due upon them. Immediately thereafter, answering an advertisement, he called at the office of a collection agency in San Diego, where he met one Hinckley, by whom he was introduced to…