Poe v. People

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Day.

We will refer to the plaintiff in error as Poe or as defendant and to defendant in error as the People or district attorney.

From a judgment of convictions of the offenses of larceny by bailee and forgery and from concurrent sentences imposed by the court on each offense, Poe brings this writ of error, contending:

I

That the evidence is insufficient to support conviction of either of the offenses and that the court should have directed verdicts of acquittal as to both.'

II

That there was prejudicial error by reason of the admission into evidence'of other so-called similar…