People v. Strauss

The three defendants above named were charged jointly by an information consisting of two counts, in the usual form, with having committed robberies in Los Angeles County. The first count charged that on or about the eleventh day of January, 1925, they robbed one E. E. Foley of a Nash automobile, a diamond ring, and nineteen dollars in money, and the second count alleged that on or about the same date they robbed one Johnny Wilkerson of three dollars in money. At the close of the People’s evidence a motion for instructed verdicts of acquittal was made in behalf of appellants, and was…