Groves

The defendants were convicted on December 26, 1922, of the crime of robbery, the specific charge being that on or about the nineteenth day of June of that year, in the city of Los Angeles, they took from one G. C. Knight personal property of the value of $16.65 in gold coin of the United States. For purposes of intelligible reference we may denominate this the oil-station case.

On October 3, 1922, the same defendants pleaded guilty to grand larceny under an information consisting of three counts charging, respectively, grand larceny, robbery, and burglary, in that these defendants and one William Allen stole $25,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry on or about June 1, 1922, in said city of Los Angeles. This will be referred to as the Rowan case.

Sentences were pronounced in the latter ease on October 10th and execution was stayed until the 17th, at which time defendants moved to dismiss the second and third counts, which motion was denied. The district attorney moved to set the cause for trial on said two counts, which was also denied, and he thereupon stated that the oil-station case was pending and had been set for trial on November 29th, and asked that execution in the Rowan…