People v. Riley

This is an appeal by the People from an order setting aside an information against respondent on the ground that respondent had been committed without reasonable and probable cause.

Question Presented

Was the evidence adduced before the committing magistrate sufficient to hold respondent to answer for the offenses charged in the three counts of the information, or any of them?

Statement of the Case

A complaint was filed in the justice court charging respondent in three counts with the crime of grand theft. (Pen. Code, § 484.) Count One charged him with taking $300 from one John M. Cooper; Count…