People v. Howell

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of the crime of robbery, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The evidence tends to show that defendant, in company with two other men, committed the offense. The principal question discussed in the briefs is the legality of defendant’s conviction based upon the assumed uncorroborated testimony of one Fusilier, who, it is urged, was an accomplice of defendant, and who was one of the two men who accompanied defendant at the time of the robbery. On his direct examina tion Fusilier testified in effect that, although present at the…