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PEOPLE v. SCOTT

Docket No. 6272.

176 Cal.App.2d 458 (1959)

1 Cal. Rptr. 600

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. LEONARD EWING SCOTT, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

December 21, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Lavine for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, William B. McKesson, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Manley J. Bowler, Chief Deputy District Attorney, J. Miller Leavy, Arthur L. Alarcon, and Lewis Watnick, Deputy District Attorneys, for Respondent.

SHINN, P.J.

L. Ewing Scott was convicted of the murder of his wife Evelyn, who disappeared from her home May 16, 1955. He was indicted by the Los Angeles County Grand Jury in October, 1956, for murder, for nine offenses of forgery and four offenses of grand theft. The count charging murder was tried; the others were removed from the trial calendar and were not tried. The trial to a jury resulted in a conviction of murder of the first degree and pursuant to a verdict...

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