Oakleaf

The defendants are charged jointly in the information with the commission of four robberies, all alleged to have been committed during the night of June 16th and the morning of June 17, 1923. The jury returned a verdict finding the defendant Oakleaf guilty on all four charges, and the defendant Piatt guilty of robbery as charged in count two of the information, and not guilty on the other three charges. The defendants have appealed separately from the judgment and from the orders denying their respective motions for a new trial. The defendant Piatt relies upon all the grounds advanced by defendant Oakleaf, and in addition thereto claims that the evidence is not sufficient to support the judgment against him.

We will consider the objections to the judgment which apply to both defendants, and afterward that which is relied upon by the defendant Piatt only. The defendants, with a man by the name of Carlton, were arrested at about 2 o ’clock on the morning of June 17, 1923, after the commission of the four robberies charged in the information. The arrest was made by a police officer of the city of Los Angeles in a restaurant in said city on account of a disturbance which occurred in…