People v. Knewbow

This appeal is from the judgment of the trial court sitting without a jury, which followed the conviction of defendant of the commission of the crime of grand theft, and from an order by which the motion of defendant for a new trial was denied.

It is unnecessary to make a detailed statement of the facts. The essential substance of the charge against defendant and the ultimate fact established by the evidence to the satisfaction of the trial court was that by means of false pretenses made by defendant as to his ownership of a certain piece of real property, he procured a loan from the…