People v. Sanders

By an amended information the defendant Sanders and Jack O’Neal Haekett were charged with the crime of robbery. (Pen. Code, § 211.) It was alleged that money was taken from Henry F. Zander, who was “a person who was then and there performing his duties as operator of a motor vehicle used for the transportation of persons for hire.” It was further alleged that at the time of the com mission of the offense, the defendants “were armed with a deadly weapon, to wit, switch-blade knife.” Each defendant waived his right to trial by jury. The defendant Sanders was convicted of robbery of the first…