People v. Jackson

The defendant Jackson and his codefendant Hoover were convicted by a jury of second degree robbery. Jackson appeals upon the grounds that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the judgment, that the court committed error in instructing the jury and also failed to instruct the jury sua sponte on the law pertaining to alibi.

The complaining witness Henry M. Strand testified that around midnight of July 12, 1944, while he was driving home in his automobile from Los Angeles to Lynwood on Atlantic Avenue, he noticed two sailors standing on the street corner in front of a market; that he pulled…