People v. Purio

Appellants were convicted of the crime of robbery and they appeal from the judgment and order denying the motion for a new trial. . The evidence for the people showed that they entered a store kept by certain Chinese in the city of Merced and by the use of force and violence took quite a sum of money from the person of several of the Chinamen, including the owner, who were therein at the time. .It was a brutal crime and there was strong and convincing evidence of the guilt of the defendants. They were positively identified by two of the Chinese. One of them made an admission which was…