People v. Murray

— The defendant was convicted of robbery, and appeals from the judgment, and from an order denying a new trial. He was charged with taking, forcibly and feloniously, from one Henry Braker, a certain watch and chain of the value of thirty dollars. The only witnesses on the part of the prosecution were the prosecuting witness, Braker, and two policemen, who arrested the defendant. Braker testified that on the night between November 9 and 10, 1889, he was sleeping in an old cabin (which had been part of the sleeping apartment of a boat), at the foot of Kearny Street, San Francisco; that one…