People v. Kristy

Appellants Kristy and Mackay, together with one Fred Landers, were charged with offenses described in eleven counts of an indictment. Appellants, tried separately from their codefendant, were by the jury convicted on all counts. Kristy and Mackay appeal from .the several judgments rendered against them and from the order denying their motion for a new trial. There was a fourth participant, one Rudolph Straight, acting with defendants -in the transactions on which the charges were founded.

Defendants and Straight, on the 16th day of January, 1935, were under lawful commitment confined in the…