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PEOPLE v. WASHINGTON

Docket No. Crim. 8528.

62 Cal.2d 777 (1965)

402 P.2d 130

44 Cal. Rptr. 442

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES EDWARDS WASHINGTON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 25, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erling J. Hovden, Public Defender, Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr., and James L. McCormick, Deputy Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk and Thomas C. Lynch, Attorneys General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Gordon Ringer, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

TRAYNOR, C.J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction entered upon jury verdicts finding him guilty of first degree robbery (Pen. Code, §§ 211, 211a) and first degree murder and fixing the murder penalty at life imprisonment. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 189, 190, 190.1.)1 He was convicted of murder for participating in a robbery in which his accomplice was killed by the victim of the robbery.

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