People v. Robinson

Defendant was convicted of first degree murder in a nonjury trial and was given a prison, sentence. He appeals from the judgment contending that he did not voluntarily and intelligently waive his constitutional rights to silence and counsel before his confession to the police.

On January 18, 1968, at about 7:40 p.m., taxicab driver Alonzo Hancock was found dead by Compton police officers. He was slumped behind the steering wheel of his cab with a gunshot wound in the head. The vehicle was parked on a street in Compton at the location where it had been sent shortly before by the dispatcher in…