Jones

In this action the defendant was jointly indicted with Tony Cardinale, Ralph Thatcher, Charles P. Gingg and P. B. Hoyt (otherwise known as Bernard Pelts), tried and found guilty of two robberies, and also the offense of murder. The verdicts returned against the defendant George Jones found him guilty of robbery on one of the counts in the second degree; guilty of robbery on one of the counts in the first degree; and guilty of murder in the first degree, with the punishment fixed at life imprisonment. The defendant Jones appears alone upon this appeal from the judgments pronounced upon the verdicts finding him guilty of the offenses just named. Upon this appeal the appellant contends the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict as to counts 1 and 2. No contention is made as to the sufficiency of the testimony to support the verdict finding the defendant guilty as charged in count 3.

The record shows the following facts: That on or about the twentieth day of February, 1933, the defendant Gingg and one Mareek, at a meeting in San Francisco, planned to visit the city of Santa Eosa for the purpose of committing robberies. At the time of making these plans the defendant Tony…