People v. Lorenz

An indictment accused appellant in three counts of robbery, second degree, in that he took personal property from three named persons after placing each in fear of immediate injury to his person. Following a trial defendant was found guilty of three counts of robbery, third degree. There was proof upon the trial that on the night in question a man wearing a mask fashioned from a silk stocking entered a delicatessen and took from the three persons named in the indictment — a clerk and two customers—money and other valuables.

*136The cleric testified that prior to the robbery he had seen defendant…