People v. Sperduto

The defendant was convicted of robbery in the first degree on an indictment in which he was charged with having feloniously assaulted one Joseph Sokalsky in the night time and taken from him one pin of the value of twenty-five dollars and the sum of fifteen dollars in cash, being then and there aided by an accomplice actually present.

The evidence of the People was received in the form of depositions taken in the Magistrate’s Court and they show that the complaining witness, another man and a girl were in the hallway of a tenement house in Ludlow street, on December 26, 1925, about one o’clock…