Pedesclaux

Jules J. Pedesclaux and a codefendant were found to be guilty by a jury of the crime of robbery.

Pedesclaux has appealed from the judgment entered.

The facts as shown by the record are as follows:

The victim, Hing Kung, lived in Locke, California. On April 29, 1962, he went to Stockton, California, from Sacramento, California, and took a room at the MacArthur Hotel on Lafayette Street.

He got up the next morning about 3:30 a.m. and went out to try to find a job. He left the hotel carrying on his person $2 in folding money in one pocket and fifty cents, a nickel and a penny in a green coin purse, nail clippers and two keys in the other.

He left the hotel and started to walk down Lafayette Street. Douglas Poster and Jules J. Pedesclaux were standing on the south side of Lafayette Street. As he started walking the victim heard Poster and Pedesclaux say, “Let’s get that guy!”

They ran toward the victim. Foster and appellant Pedeselaux grabbed the victim, one on each side, and Foster held a knife to the victim’s throat while he and the appellant went through his pockets.

They took the victim’s possessions from him, which consisted of two $1 bills, a fifty-cent piece, a nickel…