People v. Howe

SCOTT, J., pro tem.

Appellant was convicted in counts 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 of grand theft and in counts 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 of violation of the Corporate Securities Act, each of the five latter offenses growing out of the same transaction as that referred to in the count of grand theft immediately preceding it. He contends that the trial court should have dismissed the case under Penal Code, section 1382, because it was continued for trial for a period in excess of sixty days after the finding of the indictment.

Much of the time thus lost was occasioned by the action of appellant in pleading…