People v. Monteverde

This appeal was taken from a judgment of conviction on three counts of burglary fixed by the verdicts as second degree, and from an order denying' a new trial. Appellant admitted a prior burglary conviction in 1947 as alleged in the information, on which he served a term of imprisonment. In the instant ease he was sentenced to the penitentiary.

All three burglaries were of homes in the Piedmont Pines District in Oakland, in the daytime, while the occupants were absent.

The first burglary was on March 16, 1950, at the Davidson home where the articles taken were a Keystone movie camera, another…