People v. McNett

NEEDHAM, J., pro tem.

The appellant Clyde McNett was jointly charged with one Adna J. Davis by an information with the crime of attempt to commit robbery and was convicted by a jury and was by the court sentenced to serve a term of twenty years in the state prison at Folsom. The codefehdant Davis had previous to the trial of McNett pleaded guilty.

McNett has appealed from the order denying his motion for a new trial and from the judgment and sentence of imprisonment.

In a general way the facts as shown by the evidence disclosed that on the night of September 15, 1924, an attempt was made to hold…