Whitelaw

Defendant, Bernard Whitelaw, was jointly charged with Michael Nolan, John Davis and Docia Nolan with the crime of robbery, committed upon one Emma. Mathews.

Upon the trial of the defendant Whitelaw he was convicted of the crime as charged, and this appeal is from the judgment and the order denying his motion for a new trial.

.The only points relied on for a reversal concern certain rulings of the court in admitting certain evidence over the-objections and exceptions of defendant, and are utterly without merit.

The salient facts of the case, as disclosed by the evidence,, are as follows:

In the month of March, 1903, Mrs. Emma Mathews resided at 543 Haight street in the city and county of San Francisco, with her son, aged thirteen years, her daughter, Mrs. Ida Tuttle, and her daughter’s daughter, aged twelve years.

A witness for the people, Euby Grills, testified that she-heard defendant Docia Nolan say to the other three defendants, in front of a restaurant, on the evening of March 1, 1903, “I know an old woman out here who has two or three-thousand dollars and some diamonds. Her husband died a short time ago, and it would be easy to get, and the best time would be when the…