Costello

The defendant Costello was tried jointly with Avelino and Raleigh before a jury upon an information charging them with robbery. The jury returned separate verdicts finding each of the defendants guilty of robbery in the first degree, the crime having been committed while each of the defendants was armed with a deadly weapon. From the judgments following these verdicts and from the orders denying each of the defendants a new trial they have appealed separately, but by stipulation the three appeals have been presented upon a single typewritten record.

At about 10 o’clock P. M. of June 19, 1926, the three defendants entered the laundry of Yee Lung, located at No. 9 Langton Street, San Francisco, upon the pretense that one of them had left clothes with the complaining witness to be laundered. As the witness opened the door the defendant Costello pointed a revolver at him and he and one of the other defendants took the witness upstairs, made a search of the premises, and took from a trunk belonging to the witness the sum of $432. They then bound the witness and the three defendants left the premises. On the night of June 25, 1926, a number of police officers entered a rooming-house…