Sterling v. People

Sterling and McCray were jointly charged by direct information with robbery and conspiracy to commit that offense, the robbery count charging that they made an assault on one Irvine and “did rob, seize, steal, take and carry away a watch and moneys” from his person. Upon trial both were convicted of robbery, the trial court at the conclusion of the People’s case dismissing the conspiracy charge. Sterling was thereafter sentenced to a term of from three to ten years in the state penitentiary, and by writ of error he seeks reversal of the judgment.

McCray prosecuted a separate writ of error,…