People v. Gardner

Opinion

RACANELLI, P. J.

On an information charging defendants with five separate counts of grand theft (Pen. Code, § 487a: felonious theft of the carcass of a hog), three counts of criminal trespass (Pen. Code, § 602, subd. (m)) and one count of auto theft (Veh. Code, § 10851), the jury returned a verdict finding defendant Gardner guilty of all but one of the grand theft charges 1 and both defendants guilty of the trespass charges and misdemeanor “joyriding” (Pen. Code, § 499b), a lesser included offense of auto theft. 2 Defendant Gardner received concurrent state prison sentences on the…