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PEOPLE v. SEXTON

Docket No. Crim. 5120.

36 Cal.2d 361 (1950)

224 P.2d 1

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. HAROLD SEXTON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 17, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rupert Crittenden and Gordon K. Williams for Appellant.

Fred N. Howser, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Deputy Attorney General, J. Frank Coakley, District Attorney, and Folger Emerson, Assistant District Attorney, for Respondent.

SHENK, J.

This is an automatic appeal from a judgment imposing the death penalty after a conviction of the murder of Harry Harames committed in the course of an attempted robbery. A motion for a new trial was denied.

The defendant Sexton and Dominick Louis Silva were jointly charged with the murder of Harry Harames on September 2, 1949, in Alameda County. They were tried jointly. The jury returned a verdict of guilty...

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