PEOPLE v. BISHOP

Docket No. 6351.

166 Cal.App.2d 687 (1959)

333 P.2d 352

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JACK EUGENE BISHOP, Appellant.

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

January 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taylor, Sherman & Heller and Charles B. Taylor for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent.


LILLIE, J.

Defendant was convicted by the court of first degree robbery of a gasoline station. At the time of sentence, the trial judge found the weapon used to be a dangerous one and sentenced defendant to the state prison.

The sole issue on this appeal is whether the testimony of the victim is so inherently unbelievable or improbable as to render it insufficient to sustain the judgment of conviction.

According to the testimony of Harold Ray, an employee...

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