McCloud

Defendants Cornell McCloud and Byron McCloud were each convicted, upon a jury’s verdicts, of seven counts of jointly committed robberies (Pen. Code, § 211). The jury further found that in the perpetration of each of the robberies, Byron McCloud used a firearm (Pen. Code, § 12022.5), and that Cornell McCloud was armed with a firearm (Pen. Code, § 12022, subd. (a)). And each was found to have suffered a prior conviction of felony, within the meaning of Penal Code section 667.5, subdivision (b).

Each of the defendants has appealed from the judgment which was thereupon entered against him.

We have found no merit in either appeal and accordingly affirm the judgments. Our several reasons follow.

Evidence at defendants’ joint trial established that they had, on July 26, 1979, robbed the proprietor and an employee of a San Francisco beauty shop, and five of its customers. In the ensuing months defendants were *182 arrested on an unrelated felony charge, during the investigation of which they were believed by the police to be linked to many reported burglaries, and murder and other crimes. A San Francisco daily newspaper published a story, November 7, 1979, about defendants’…