People v. Broaden

This appeal considers consolidated cases involving convictions of two defendants of unarmed robbery, MCLA 750.530; MSA 28.798, from the same basic facts. In the mid-afternoon of January 8, 1973, Mrs. Hattie Sue Hill was standing with her 11-year-old daughter Connie at a street corner in Detroit. A silver Mark IV automobile stopped in front of her and one man jumped out, struck her and grabbed her purse. Before the car sped off, several other people had opportunities to view the perpetrators. Approximately fifteen minutes later, the defendants and another female, Yvonne Brooks, were stopped in…