Welch

On a charge of robbery, the court found defendant guilty of second degree robbery. Defendant appealed.

Upon defendant’s request an attorney was appointed to represent him on the appeal. This attorney has advised the court that after reviewing the record, he is of the opinion there are no valid grounds for an appeal. After an independent review of the record, we reach the same conclusion.

On September 24, 1962, at approximately 10 a. m., prosecution witnesses, Dodgson, Stewart and Lowery, were having coffee at Cooper’s Doughnut Shop at 2d and “K” Streets in Sacramento, when defendant, who had been in and out of the shop that morning, walked into the shop again, approached Dodgson, grabbed him by the neck, took his wrist watch and ran from the place. Dodgson described him to a police officer as “a very large colored man,” and accompanied the officer on a tour of the vicinity. Defendant was apprehended on the street shortly thereafter. After he had been identified by Dodgson as the person who took his watch, the police searched defendant and found the watch, with the wristband broken, in his pocket.

Defendant was not only identified by Dodgson, but also by Lowery and…