People v. Chaney

Defendant was convicted by the trial court upon waiver of a jury trial of unarmed robbery 1 and sentenced to a prison term of 3 to 15 years.

Defendant claims error in plaintiff’s failure to indorse and produce certain alleged res gestae witnesses, 2 i.e., the three or four other youths present at the time of the robbery. One of these witnesses was arrested at the same time as the defendant. He is therefore considered an accomplice to the crime. The rule requiring the people to indorse on the information and call all res gestae witnesses does not apply to accomplices. People v. Virgil Brown…