People v. Johnson

Defendant, Joe Johnson, appeals from his conviction on a charge of armed robbery rendered after a bench trial in the Criminal Court of Cook County.

The complaining witness, Pearline Walker, testified that on June 18,1959, at about 11:00 a. m., on Western Avenue near Washington Boulevard in Chicago, she was accosted by Johnson and an unidentified man and that they took $150 from her at knife-point. Miss Walker did not create any alarm after the purported robbery took .place, but went to her brother’s home and phoned the police from there. Plaintiff in error admits being at the scene and taking…