People v. Young

After trial before a jury, defendants appeal from a judgment of guilty of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury.

The evidence being viewed in the light most favorable to the People (respondent) discloses the following facts:

On the 18th of August, 1947, at Huntington Park, defendants and their wives entered a taxicab of the All-American Cab Company. The driver then drove them to the 3500 block on East Seventh Street in Los Angeles where his passengers got out of the cab. A dispute then arose over the fare resulting in a fight in which the driver, Boyd Caddell,…