People v. Rollins

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree for the unlawful killing on July 9, 1918, of one Charles G. Allen and sentenced to death. This is an appeal by him from the judgment and from an order denying a new trial.

No question of insufficiency of evidence is presented. Admittedly the evidence conclusively shows thal; defendant and a companion named Rogers went tó the house occupied by deceased, which was some two or three miles from Knight’s Ferry, in pursuance of a plan to there commit the crime of robbery, and that there, in the perpetration of the robbery, they brutally…