People v. Clement

Appellant and one Mason Griffin were accused by information of the crime of robbery. They were convicted and appellant Clement has appealed from the judgment and from the order denying him a new trial.

The facts are as follows: About 10 o’clock on the evening of September 26, 1929, certain neighbors were engaged in a home in the Marina district at a game of bridge. While so engaged the front doorbell rang and in responding thereto one of the occupants was confronted by two men armed with cocked revolvers. The men entered the premises, searched the house and robbed the occupants of the funds in their possession. The defendants were subsequently arrested and charged with having committed the crime. At the trial appellant’s co-defendant was positively identified as one of the perpetrators of the robbery and he has not appealed from the judgment. Appellant about five days after his arrest admitted to the police authorities that he was engaged in this and other robberies and he subsequently signed a statement to the effect that in the evening of the day in question he was riding on Broderick Street, in the Marina district, with two companions named Griffin and Caldwell. They noticed…