People v. Blanchard

Under an information charging the respondents with the robbery of one Mansau, they were convicted of assault with intent to rob. Mansau was a peddler, and claimed to have been robbed at a lumber camp where the respondents were employed. There are numerous assignments of error, but counsel for the respondents divides them into two classes, — those directed against the sufficiency of the evidence, and those directed against the charge of the court and refusals to give certain requests. ■ . .

1. There is a conflict of evidence. The prosecuting witness, Mansau, testified positively to facts which,…