Gorman

Defendant was charged with the crime of robbery and with having suffered a prior conviction of the crime of manslaughter. Upon his arraignment he admitted the charge of prior conviction to be true, and upon his trial he was found guilty of the crime of robbery. Upon judgment being pronounced against him he appealed from the judgment and the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The point principally relied upon for a reversal is that the verdict is not supported by the evidence, in that the defendant, as it is claimed, is not by the evidence sufficiently identified as the person who committed the robbery. The contention is entirely without merit.

The evidence shows that on the morning of the seventeenth day of April, 1909, two masked men, armed with pistols, entered the office of the Thomson Bridge Company at 103 Main street, between Mission and Howard streets in San Francisco, and finding the bookkeeper, one Rosengreen, alone, securely bound and gagged him. Shortly after this was done Mr. James M. Thomson returned to the office from the bank bringing a sack of money containing $3,200 with which to pay the workmen of the company for their week’s labor. Thomson dropped the…