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PEOPLE v. BURT

Docket No. Crim. 5715.

45 Cal.2d 311 (1955)

288 P.2d 503

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOHN JAMES BURT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 21, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jefferson & Jefferson, Martha Malone Jefferson and Bernard S. Jefferson for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and William E. James, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

Defendant was charged by information with violating section 653f of the Penal Code in that he "solicit[ed the prosecutrix] to commit and join in the commission of the crime of Extortion." After a trial by the court sitting without a jury, defendant was found guilty. His motion for a new trial was denied, but the proceedings were suspended and he was placed on probation. He appeals from the order granting probation (Pen. Code, § 1237) and from the...

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