King

Defendant, Jones and Armstrong were charged with kidnaping for purposes of robbery (§ 209, Pen. Code) and robbery (§ 211, Pen. Code). Defendant was charged with a prior felony conviction (manslaughter) which he admitted. The kidnaping charge was stricken on motion of the People. A jury found defendant and Jones guilty of robbery, second degree; it acquitted Armstrong. Defendant appeals from the judgment.

After his discharge from the hospital on April 19, 1965, George Fulcher started drinking wine; toward evening he went to a recreation center next to a pool hall on 41st Street. Around 9 p.m. he wanted to leave but had no transportation; someone suggested that a man in a car parked in front of the pool hall would take him. Fulcher went up to Armstrong, the driver, and offered him a couple of dollars for a ride to a certain address. J ones and a woman were in the car but when Fulcher entered the woman left. Fulcher sat in the back seat with defendant. After four or five blocks one of them asked *549 Fulcher if he would participate in buying some liquor, then Armstrong drove the ear up a dark alley and stopped. The next thing Fulcher knew he was being attacked by the three men. One…