People v. Lindsey

Convicted of armed robbery, defendant appeals. He makes no claim of insufficiency of the evidence but argues for reversible error through (1) receipt of a confession obtained by “psychological coercion and duress,” and (2) receipt of evidence of other crimes committed by him.

Respondent’s proof shows that in the early morning of October 17, 1959, defendant accosted a sailor, Donald H. Largent, who was walking on Anaheim Boulevard in Long Beach, and asked for a light. Largent said, ‘ ‘ I don’t smoke, ’ ’ whereupon defendant told him to stop and came running up with a shotgun which was pointed…