Grischott

Defendant and appellant Alice Cordelia Grischott was charged jointly in two counts of an information with defendants Francis W. Richards, Billy Jones and James D. Hunt, with the crime of burglarizing two furniture stores on the same evening. Appellant plead not guilty. The other defendants entered pleas of guilty. A jury verdict resulted in appellant’s conviction on both counts. She appealed and questions the sufficiency of the evidence to show that she aided and abetted the other defendants in the commission of the offenses.

The evidence shows that on the night of December 10, 1950, about 3:30 a.m., a police officer caught the named defendants in the store of the Vanderwall Furniture Company, in Redlands, hiding behind a counter. They had been endeavoring to open a safe by means of a sledge hammer. They had, a few minutes previous to this time, entered another near-by furniture store and were unsuccessful in breaking open the safe located therein. The officer handcuffed them and put them in a police car which was parked behind the store about 50 feet east of an alley. Immediately thereafter appellant drove up behind them through the alley and stopped. The officers went to her…