People v. Crotty

Appellant was convicted of grand larceny upon an information which charged that on or about the fourteenth day of May, 1924, in Los Angeles County, California, he did steal, take, and carry away from the person and immediate presence of one Carl Peterson a wallet containing nine dollars in money. The sol© ground of this appeal is an alleged insufficiency of evidence to sustain the judgment.

It appears that on said date, at about 6 o’clock in the afternoon, Peterson visited a market on Main Street, in Los Angeles, where he purchased about sixty cents’ worth of meat, for which he paid with a…