People v. Edenburg

The defendants Oscar Edenburg and Guy Watley were jointly charged and convicted of the offense of child stealing, a crime denounced by section 278 of the Penal Code. The appellant Oscar Edenburg prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of conviction.

It appears from the testimony that Mr. and Mrs. Lockhard, the parents of Ruby and Leona, fourteen and fifteen years of age, respectively, were operating a restaurant at Corcoran, California, and required the help of their daughters in its operation very early in the morning and late into the evening. For some little time prior to June 28, 1927,…