PEOPLE v. BRANCH

Docket No. 5194.

127 Cal.App.2d 438 (1954)

274 P.2d 31

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOHN STAFFORD BRANCH, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

September 16, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Stafford Branch, in pro. per., and Edward J. Skelly, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Alan R. Woodard, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


FOX, J.

Defendant was convicted of armed robbery. He appeals from the ensuing judgment.

Defendant was discovered by Mr. Newman, the janitor, in the rear of the J.C. Penney Company store, located at 1516 East Florence Avenue in Los Angeles, shortly after 9 o'clock in the morning on January 4, 1954. He had entered the store through a vent in the roof about daylight but being unable to find any money he decided to remain until the employees arrived and then to...

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