People v. Jones

By the Court, Sawyer, J.:

The defendant was convicted of the crime of robbery, committed by taking four ounces of gold dust from the person of a Chinaman named Ah Po. There was no evidence tending in the slightest degree to support the charge except extrajudicial statements by the defendant and a co-defendant of a somewhat loose character, made to one party, who was also arrested for the offense, and to another who was a feigned accomplice in another subsequent transaction, that they had taken eleven ounces of gold dust from some five to seven Chinamen working on a certain ravine, one of whom…