People v. Roth

ARCHBALD, J., pro tem.

From judgments of conviction entered on verdicts of guilty returned by the jury on seventeen counts charging grand theft and four counts charging violations of the Corporate Securities Act, and from orders denying his motions for arrest of such judgments and for new trials, defendant has appealed.

The evidence shows that defendant at the age of twenty-one made a business connection with C. C. Julian and continued in such business until December, 1924, at which time they transferred to S. T. Lewis fifty-one per cent of the voting stock of the Julian Petroleum Corporation,…