People v. Cappola

Citations

• 6 Cal. Unrep. 232
• 56 P. 248
• 1899 Cal. LEXIS 1178

Syllabus

<p>Robbery—Identifying Defendant.—There is Evidence to identify defendant as the person who committed the robbery, prosecuting witnesses testifying that he was one of the persons who robbed him, though defendant and his witnesses testified that he cut off his mustache a month before the robbery, and had not worn one since, and prosecuting witness, who testified that he had seen defendant after, as well as a year before, the robbery, said that when he “previously met” him he wore a mustache; the jury being at liberty to hold that the time thus referred to was when he met defendant a year before the robbery.</p>