People v. Raner

By information, the defendants were charged with the crime of robbery while armed with a deadly weapon, to wit, a sawed-off .22 caliber rifle. Defendants pleaded guilty to the charge of robbery but denied having been armed, and waived a jury trial on that issue. By leave of court, an application for probation was filed by each defendant. At the close of the hearing which was had on the applications for probation and for the purpose of fixing the degree of the crime, the trial judge found that defendants had been “armed with a deadly weapon to wit an unloaded pistol at the time of the…