People v. Lavender

Defendant appeals from a judgment which followed his conviction of the crime of robbery; also from an order by which his motion for a new trial was denied.'

From the evidence adduced on the trial of the action, it appears that in the night-time, defendant, accompanied by another, induced a clerk in a hotel to show them a room therein, and that while so engaged defendant and his companion “held up’’the said clerk, bound his hands at his back, gagged him, placed him on a bed in the room that he was “showing” to defendant, and tied the clerk’s feet to one of the bedposts; whereupon defendant and…