People v. Day

DOOLING, J. pro tem.

The appellant Day and one Miramontes were convicted of first degree robbery. The evidence showed that on August 9, 1944, during the noon lunch hour Miramontes entered the office of the Housing Authority in the city of Richmond and at the point of a pistol compelled the two women employees then present to give him the cash on hand in the office. The only evidence connecting appellant with the robbery, other than his confession introduced over the objection that there was no proof of the corpus delicti as to him, is here recited:

Day had up to some time in July, 1944, been…