People v. Jackson

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of the crime of first degree robbery.

Questions Presented

1. Correction by the court of its finding of degree prior to entry in minutes.

2. Sufficiency of evidence of first degree robbery.

Record

An information charged defendant with the crime of robbery, to which he pleaded not guilty. It also charged three priors, which defendant denied. By counsel and personally defendant waived jury trial. The court, after trial before it, found defendant guilty of first degree robbery and also found the allegations as to priors true. After holding that defendant was not an habitual criminal, the court sentenced defendant to state prison, the sentence to run concurrently with a prior sentence.

Evidence

While Barton Jeffeoat was driving a cab in Sacramento, on his way to pick up a fare to which he had been dispatched, he was flagged down by defendant. Another man, later identified as one Watkins, was standing near defendant in the yard of the premises where defendant was. Defendant asked the cab driver to return in 20 minutes and offered him some money which was refused. Some half hour later, Jeffeoat returned. Defendant and Watkins got…