State v. Yoshino

OPINION ÓE THE COURT BY

CIRCUIT JUDGE CROCKETT.

Defendant-plaintiff in error, Richard Toshishige Yoshino, was convicted in the First Circuit Court by a jury under an indictment for robbery in the first degree, which in substance charged that the defendant on the 6th day of September, 1959, being armed with a dangerous weapon, to-wit, a gun, did feloniously rob, steal, take and carry away approximately $300.00 from the custody and in the presence of Kalani Fernandez by the use of force and putting him in fear of life and bodily injury.

The evidence for the prosecution showed that around 2:00…