The People v. Bartz

Charles Bartz, Patrick Coffey and Timothy Yanahan were found guilty of robbery by a jury in the criminal court of Cook county. The jury further found that at the time of the commission of the crime, Bartz was armed with a dangerous weapon and that Coffey and Yanahan had a confederate present so armed to aid and assist them. Judgments were rendered upon the verdicts and the defendants prosecute this writ of error for a review of the record.

At about eight o’clock in the evening of April 20, 1928, three men, each with a handkerchief over the lower part of his face, entered the grocery store of…