People v. Groves

The defendants were convicted on December 26, 1922, of the crime of robbery, the specific charge being that on or about the nineteenth day of June of that year, in the city of Los Angeles, they took from one G. C. Knight personal property of the value of $16.65 in gold coin of the United States. For purposes of intelligible reference we may denominate this the oil-station case.

On October 3, 1922, the same defendants pleaded guilty to grand larceny under an information consisting of three counts charging, respectively, grand larceny, robbery, and burglary, in that these defendants and one…