People v. Lesser

TAPPAAN, J., pro tem.

The defendant was charged in an information filed by the district attorney with the commission of seven felonies. The first count of the information alleged the crime of grand theft, while the remaining six counts charged defendant with a violation of the Corporate Securities Act, in that he acted as a broker in the sale of stock of the Hollywood Business Properties, a corporation, without being licensed by the commissioner of corporations as a broker. The defendant was found guilty by the jury of the charge of grand theft and on five of the six counts of violation of the…