Caudillo
People v. Caudillo
Opinion
Opinion
Brown, J.
Appellant was convicted after jury trial of robbery (Pen. Code, § 211) with the use of a firearm (Pen. Code, § 12022.5). He appeals from the judgment.
On March 3, 1977, at about 7:15 p.m., two men entered Ken’s Cork-N-Bottle liquor store on 11th Street in Hanford. After the men entered the store one of them picked a bag of potato chips from a rack and walked to the counter. Placing the chips and dollar bill on the counter, he opened his trench coat and revealed a gun butt, as he told clerk Jerry Zwickl “This is a holdup. Give us all your money.” The other man, who had never left the cash register area, pointed a gun at Zwickl’s forehead.
Zwickl gave the robbers a paper bag and took all the money out of the register. This activated a camera, which took three photos of the robbers. The trench-coated robber placed the money in the bag. Zwickl was ordered to lie face down on the floor. The two robbers left. From her vantage point inside a car parked directly in front of the store entrance, Kathy Rocha saw the two men inside the store near the counter area. About a minute later she saw the men leave the store, run down the street, and around the corner. Zwickl and Rocha…