State v. Thompson

The opinion of the court'was delivered by

Burch, J.:

Defendants were tried and found guilty on an information charging them in the first count with rape of a woman, and in the second count with robbery of a man of an automobile. Defendants appeal, and assign as error denial of a motion to quash the information on the ground distinct and dissimilar felonies were improperly joined.

The information charged the offenses were committed on the same day, and that is all defendants’ abstract discloses with reference to commission of the two crimes. Therefore the question presented is the purely abstract…