People v. Stepp

Defendant and one other were charged under two informations with two acts of robbery. The codefendant pleaded insanity and at the time of defendant’s trial was confined in the state hospital for the criminal insane. The two informations were consolidated as to the defendant Stepp and he was found guilty under both. This defendant rejected the terms of an order of probation and appealed from the order denying his motion for a new trial and from the judgment.

The codefendant was shown to have held up a drugstore in August, 1946, and another on September 1 of the same year. In both instances he…