People v. Black

Citations

• 122 Cal. 73
• 54 P. 385
• 1898 Cal. LEXIS 532

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law—Larceny Committed in Canada—Jurisdiction of Superior Court.—The jurisdiction of the superior court to try and convict a defendant accused of committing a larceny in Canada, and bringing the stolen goods into this state, and into the county where the accused was tried, is not conferred by section 789 of the Penal Code, which applies only when the stealing occurred in another state of the United States, but is conferred by section 497 of the Penal Code, which provides that one “who in another state or country steals the property of another, .... and brings the same into this state, may be convicted and punished in the same manner as if such larceny .... had been committed in this state.”</p>