People v. Williams

In a jury trial defendant was convicted of second degree robbery. He admitted allegations of the information that he had been convicted previously of three felonies.

Appellant contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict; and there were "errors ’’ which amounted to misconduct by the judge, the prosecutor, and appellant’s attorney.

Mrs. Duncanson testified that she had been an employee in the meat department of a food market (at 58th and Vermont *716 Streets, in Los Angeles) for approximately a year before the robbery occurred; during that time she had seen the appellant in and near the market several times; on February 21, 1959, about 6:20 p. m., after she had cashed her pay check at the market and had purchased groceries, she left the market and went to her automobile which was on a side street, “quite a distance” from the market; a boy, who was an employee of the market, carried the two bags of groceries, placed them in the right front seat of the automobile, and went back to the market; then she went to the driver’s side of the automobile, opened the door, and threw her purse into the automobile and against the door on the opposite side; various articles…