People v. Willard

Appeal from a judgment of conviction on a charge of receiving stolen goods, and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

A preliminary statement of the leading facts of the case is necessary to a proper understanding of the points urged in support of the appeal.

For about eighteen months prior to March 11,1889, the defendant and one Frank Willard lived together in the city of Santa Barbara, holding themselves out as man and wife, and the defendant claims that they were in fact married by contract in San Bernardino in August, 1884, *484and from that time openly assumed towards each…