Washington v. Sylvia

The information upon which appellants were tried contained two counts charging Eugene F. Sylvia, Joe M. Sylvia, Manuel Sylvia, Charles Newman (alias Charles Brown), and John Doe Johnson with the crime of grand larceny.

Count one accused Manuel Sylvia, Charles Newman, and John Doe Johnson with stealing and unlawfully appropriating to their own use, April 8, 1937, approximately eight hundred feet of cable, having a value in excess of twenty-five dollars, with the intent to deprive the owner, Crown Zellerbach Paper Company, a corporation, thereof; and that Eugene F. Sylvia and Joe M. Sylvia aided…