People v. Failla

Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him, upon jury verdicts, of five counts of first degree burglary (Pen. Code, § 459) and one count of simple kidnaping (Pen. Code, § 207).

The facts of the alleged offenses need not be related in great detail. Counts I through V charged defendant with five burglaries arising out of nighttime entries into the apartments of five different female victims “with the intent ... to commit a felony and theft”; Count VI, kidnaping, was predicated on an incident occurring in the course of the burglary charged in Count II. In summary, the evidence showed the…