People v. Devaughn

Defendant was found guilty on a charge of grand larceny in taking personal property from the person of one Lindbloom. He has appealed from the judgment, as well as from the order of the court denying his motion for a new trial.

The evidence shows that the prosecuting witness, Lind-bloom, was employed as a car-repairer in the yards of the Union Pacific Company in the city of Los Angeles; that on the fifth day of December, 1922, he finished his work at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, when he started for a street-car to take him to his home; that before he got on the ear he took his pocketbook…