People v. Peterson
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Court of Sessions of the County of San Francisco. Charles M. Peterson was indicted by the grand jury of the County of San Francisco, for converting to his own use certain coin and gold-dust, the property of John A. Clary.
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Appeal from the Court of Sessions of the County of San Francisco. Charles M. Peterson was indicted by the grand jury of the County of San Francisco, for converting to his own use certain coin and gold-dust, the property of John A. Clary. The material averment of the indictment is as follows : “That Charles M. Peterson, of the city, county, and State, aforesaid, on the twentieth day of June, a. d. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, at the said city and county, beiog then and there the bailee of forty pieces of gold coin usually called twenty-dollar pieces, of the value of eight…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted for the conversón to his own use, whilst bailee, of certain coin and gold-dust, the property of one John A. Clary. Motions were made in arrest of judgment and for a new trial, which were overruled by the Court below, and the defendant appealed.
*315The indictment is defective in not stating the character of the bailment, and in the description of the coin. (The People v. A. A. Cohen, 8 Cal. R., 42.) It is unnecessary to notice the other points made by appellant.
It is but just to state that the indictment was drawn and the trial had before the…
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