People v. Ryan

BARNARD, P. J.—

The defendant was charged with attempted grand theft, and found guilty by a jury. His application for probation was granted but he appeals from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The defendant is a chiropractor, and also a graduate laboratory technician. Pursuant to an arrangement with agents of the State Board of Health and the district attorney’s office, a nurse called the defendant on the phone and asked him to come to see her father who was suffering from a cancer and who had been told that he had only five or six months to live. The defendant asked where the…