People v. Otterman

Having been charged with five violations of the Corporate Securities Act (Corp. Code, § 26104, subd. (a)) and a like number of grand thefts arising out of the same transactions, defendant was convicted by a jury upon two counts of each class. The victims were Richard E. Truett (counts I and II of the information) and Edmund A. Wanner (counts VI and VII). Defendant was granted probation but appeals from that order (Pen. Code, § 1237, subd. 1) and from an order denying his motion for new trial (Pen. Code, § 1237, subd. 2). He also attempted to appeal from the sentence, which cannot be made the…