People v. Schram

On September 26, 1958, Fred Piper, the proprietor of Piper’s Tavern, was tending bar when a man entered, ordered a beer, and stationed himself near the rear exit. He brandished a sawed-off shotgun and announced a holdup. Piper reached for a gun and the robber shot him. The robber then dropped his gun and fled.

Subsequently Fred Piper identified Mark Brock as the holdup man, and Brock was arrested pursuant to a warrant on January 20, 1959, examined on January 27th and the criminal information was filed February 19, 1959.

In the meantime on January 5, 1959, the police learned that a second man…