People v. Kress

It is submitted that the verdict of the jury convicting defendant appellant of the crime of robbery in the first degree should be affirmed. The facts detailing the planning and execution of the robbery down to the minutest detail, including the part which each participant took in effecting the robbery and the escape, have been set forth in the testimony of an accomplice. Up to within a comparatively recent time, and prior to the enactment of section 399 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, a jury, if satisfied of the truth of the statement of an accomplice, could convict on his testimony alone.…