State v. Houghton

The defendant was charged with the crime of robbery from the person of one Balch, by assault and putting in fear, and upon his trial was convicted of an assault with intent to rob. . Balch was assaulted by three men, and robbed of a check for $7, and $20 to $25 in money, about 11 o’clock on the night of November 7, 1902, on a street in the “North End” of the City of Portland. A short time before the robbery he was in the Mint saloon, and while there received change for a twenty-dollar gold piece. Several persons, strangers to him, were in the saloon at the time, one of whom he testifies was…