People v. Maglaya

Defendant, convicted of armed robbery, * alleges that several errors occurred in the lower court trial. Most of the errors alleged relate to the prosecution’s principal witness, a confessed participant in the robbery. The witness spent time in a mental institution, but had been adjudged sane by the probate court about one month before the crime occurred. At trial, defendant moved to exclude the witness’s testimony as incompetent, and alternatively requested that the witness testify in the absence of the jury. The court denied defendant’s requests. Defendant did not object to the court’s…