People v. Masters

DESMOND, J., pro tem.

The defendant, convicted by a jury of first degree burglary, seeks a reversal on the grounds of insufficiency of the evidence, refusal of the court to give one of his requested instructions and the admission of certain evidence hereinafter mentioned in some detail. The appeal is also from the order of the trial court denying a new trial.

The complaining witness, one Anderson, had a room upon the sixth floor of a hotel in Los Angeles. Shortly after midnight of February 2, 1933, he went to bed, leaving his trousers on a chair in his room. In a pocket of his trousers was a…