People v. Meyers

Defendant was charged with the crime of grand larceny, and upon the trial was found guilty. His motion for a new trial was denied, and appeal is taken from the judgment and from the order denying such motion.

The sole point made by the appellant is that the verdict of the jury is entirely unsupported by the evidence.

Briefly, the testimony is as follows:

Mrs. Grace Hopkins testified: “On the evening of November the 23d, 1905, at about midnight, in front of a hotel on Mason street in San Francisco, I saw Arnold, Noelke and defendant Meyers, all strangers to me. These three men and myself, at the…