People v. Brown

Convicted of bookmaking (Pen. Code, § 337a, subd. 1), defendant appeals from the judgment and the order denying his motion for a new trial. He demands a reversal on the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence. He maintains that “no testimony was introduced to establish any of the conversation amounted to a wager on a horse race.”

Prior to his arrest on February 20, 1953, appellant had been under surveillance for about 45 minutes in his own kitchen on Gladys Avenue in Los Angeles by Officer Fusilier of the police force. The officer is an expert in the knowledge of the equipment, methods and…