People v. Monahan

The Court:

Defendant was convicted of robbery in the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco.

On the trial the Court, in its charge to the jury, used the following language: "It will only be necessary for me, I think, to read to you a definition or tioo from the Code, setting out what the offense here charged is. You can then apply the facts as you may find them to the definitions of the Code. The defendant is charged with robbery. Robbery is the felonious taking of personal property. In this case it is *390charged that it was a five-dollar piece, I think, or four or five dollars,…