People v. Staker

WOOD (Fred B.), J.

Defendant-appellant Lorraine Staker and defendants Isnaldo Ferrari, Mildred Hoeffner and Marie Gifford * were convicted of conspiracy (violation of Pen. Code, § 182) in that they conspired and agreed with each other and with Patricia Murray and Billie Donovan to commit the crimes of grand theft (Pen. Code, §§ 484, 487), petty theft (Pen. Code, §§ 484, 488), and receiving stolen property (Pen. Code, §496).

Murray and Donovan were not joined as defendants. They were prosecution witnesses. They did the stealing from various retail stores in San Francisco and, so they testified,…