People v. Rogers

The appellants jointly with one William Fleming were informed against by the district attorney of Sacramento County for the crime of robbery, alleged to have been committed on the twelfth day of April, 1922, in said county, upon the person of one Floyd McBride, it being alleged that said defendants by means of force and fear took from the possession and in the immediate presence of said McBride one open-face watch and one watch-chain of the value of thirty dollars and of the personal property of said McBride. The appellants were jointly tried for and convicted of the crime so charged and took an appeal from the judgment of conviction.

The cause was regularly placed upon the calendar of the December, 1922, term of this court for hearing and argument, and the attorneys of record for the appellants duly notified of that fact. On the day upon which the case was called for hearing no one appeared for the appellants and, consequently, the cause was not orally argued before this court. No briefs had been filed in the case and the cause, upon being called for hearing, was submitted by the attorney-general upon the record. No briefs have since been filed in behalf of the appellants.

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