PEOPLE v. FOOTE

Docket No. Crim. 5855.

48 Cal.2d 20 (1957)

306 P.2d 803

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. DONALD MICHAEL FOOTE et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 15, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond De Forest Johnson, in pro. per., Charles E. Karpinski, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, Richard E. Adams, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Edgar G. Langford, J. Perry Langford, Robert O'Connor, and Barton C. Sheela, Jr., for Appellants.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


GIBSON, C.J.

After a jury trial, defendants Foote, Johnson and Curtis were found guilty of robbery in the first degree and of conspiracy to commit robbery. Each defendant appeals separately from the judgment of conviction and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

On July 31, 1955, near 10 p.m., two men, whose faces were masked by silk stockings, threatened the cashier of a drive-in movie theater with guns and took about $800 from him. About 15...

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