People v. Whitson

Whitson was convicted of the robbery of one John Guilman, of which he was jointly charged with McMartin and Maher, but separately tried. The testimony of the offense was direct and positive. The money taken was part in silver and part in bills. Complainant identified one of the bills positively, and others not so clearly. One of the witnesses for the prosecution mentioned several women, and among them one Sarah Burns, as standing at the door of a house which Guilman went to after the robbery, while he bore the marks of violence. On cross-examination he said it was a house of bad repute. He…