People v. Thomas

On leave granted, defendant appeals from Ms conviction and sentence for robbery armed. Defendant claims errors on grounds of failure of trial judge, sua sponte, to instruct the jury respecting confessions as evidence, improper admission of evidence respecting other offenses, and improper recitals by court and prosecutor to the jury of some phases of the testimony in unexplained absence of the attorney for defendant.

Defendant and another, Willie Jenkins, were jointly tried and each found guilty by a jury in recorder’s court for the city of Detroit, on March 3, 1949, of an armed robbery…