People v. Washington

Defendants prosecute their appeal from judgments of conviction of robbery in the first degree.

The sole question presented by these respective appeals is: Was the ruling of the trial court correct when it overruled the objection of defendants to the admissibility of a transcript of the testimony of an absent complaining witness given at a preliminary hearing upon a showing by the prosecution that the witness (the asserted victim) was without the State of California ?

Without the testimony of the absent witness (who was the victim), from the record the prosecution did not present sufficient…