People v. Lamb

Defendant was convicted of having forged a fictitious name on a hank check for the purpose of cheating a hotel and a bank (Pen. Code, § 470) and of having committed grand theft by feloniously taking a diamond ring of the value of $1,500 from one Frank Alten. By this appeal, he seeks a reversal on the grounds of insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the judgment, errors in the conduct of the trial, and misdirection of the jury.

The Evidence Is Sufficient

About one month prior to the events about to be narrated, appellant had been released from the Los Angeles County Jail where he had been…