People v. Collins

Opinion

FLEMING, J.

James Howard Collins appeals his conviction by a jury of second degree robbery. (Pen. Code, §211.)

The Robbery

Mrs. Juanita Chambers and her daughter Delenna Sue Chambers were tending their small grocery store in Long Beach at 7:30 p.m. on 15 April *6031969. Collins entered the store, walked to the meat counter and asked Mrs. Chambers for a pickled pig’s foot. Mrs. Chambers noticed Collins as he approached the meat counter and remembered having seen him in the store at different times before. She picked out a pickled pig’s foot, wrapped it, put on a second wrapper at Collins’…