People v. Gilliam

Convicted of six counts of grand theft (Pen. Code, §§ 484, 487, subd. 1) defendant appeals from the judgment and relies upon the sole claim of insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.

The victims of defendant’s false pretenses were incredibly credulous and greedy, but that does not absolve defendant from guilt. On the civil side of the law of fraud it is said: “If the conduct of the plaintiff in the light of his own intelligence and information was manifestly unreasonable, however, he will be denied a recovery. . . . ‘He may not put faith in representations which are preposterous,…