People v. Haydon

This appeal presents the question of whether section 72 of the Penal Code was repealed pro tanto by the enactment of section 101 of the Unemployment Insurance Act (Stats. 1935, p. 1226; 3 Deering’s Gen. Laws, Act 8780(d)).

Record

Defendant was convicted of the crime of felony, to wit, violation of section 72 of the Penal Code, in that with intent to defraud he wilfully presented for payment a false and fraudulent claim for California unemployment insurance and received payment thereon. He does not attack the sufficiency of the evidence, but contends that the later enactment of section 101(a) of…