People v. Orloff

BISHOP, J. pro tem.—

Each of the defendants was found guilty, by a jury, of robbery in the first degree, and each has appealed from the order denying him a new trial and from the judgment of conviction. If we remove from the scales that evidence on the People’s side which is there through errors, we find the evidence remaining, as to the three defendants other than Alvarez, so evenly balanced that the errors appear prejudicial, necessitating, as to them, a reversal of the judgment and of the order denying them a new trial, and as to Alvarez we find a total lack of evidence.

The evidence…