People v. Patskan

On July 14, 1967, at approximately 4 a.m., three men attempted to hold up a restaurant-bar on East Eight Mile Road, in Detroit. The establishment had closed for the evening and a night porter, Fernando Jaime, was inside cleaning. He *706received a telephone call that the place was on fire and upon attempting* to leave by way of the back door he was accosted by two men who took his keys and informed him that it was a stick-up.

Upon the back door being* opened, a silent alarm was sounded in a private protection agency’s office. The police were summoned and the robbery thwarted. One of the holdup men…