People v. Albritton

By an information filed in the superior court, three men named respectively Albritton, Smith and Shiraishi were charged with the commission by them of the crime of murder. In the same information the defendant Shiraishi was also charged with the commission of a prior felony. Shortly, following the date of the arraignment of the three defendants, Shiraishi presented a motion that he be granted a trial separate from either or both of his co-defendants—which motion was by the court denied. Two days after the trial of all the defendants had commenced, Albritton and Smith each withdrew his former…