The trial court had no power to order a consolidation because the separate information filed against each defendant failed to allege the existence of a common scheme or plan or concerted action by the defendants as required by section 279 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Thus each defendant was deprived of a fundamental right to a separate trial upon the evidence adduced in the case against him alone...
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