Miles

An appeal by defendant Clifford Miles from a judgment of conviction of the crime of robbery. This is a companion case to People v. Eldridge, ante, p. 386 [ 237 Pac. 770 ], As stated in the opinion rendered in that case, Eldridge, Miles, and one Charles Davis were jointly charged with robbing one Henry Waxman, shortly before midnight, on April 2, 1924, on Willow Avenue, between Laguna and Octavia Streets, San Francisco. The victim of the robbery positively identified Miles as one of the perpetrators of the crime, and, moreover, Miles made a written confession setting forth the circumstances of the preparation for and the execution of the crime, and of the movements and operations of himself and his two associates on the night in question. All of this evidence is set forth in the opinion in the Eldridge case and it will therefore be unnecessary to again narrate it here. But in addition to the evidence therein stated, as against Miles, the pawnbroker with whom Miles had previously pawned his revolver was produced as a witness. He testified, in corroboration of the confession made by Miles, that on the day of the robbery Miles wanted to pawn an overcoat, but that he refused to lend…