People v. Friday

The defendant Friday and one Fonseca were tried together and both convicted of robbery in the first degree. Both defendants admitted a prior conviction and service of sentence in the state penitentiary for separate crimes of robbery. The defendant Friday prosecuted a separate appeal from the judgment and the order denying him a new trial.

The two defendants held up a drug store in the city of San Jose at about 12:30 in the afternoon of March 28, 1936. While Friday held a gun upon the proprietor, Fonseca took the money from the cash register, a wallet containing money from the pocket of the…