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PEOPLE v. MENDES

Docket No. Crim. 5085.

35 Cal.2d 537 (1950)

219 P.2d 1

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. LUIS LOPEZ MENDES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 13, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Perkins and John D. McComish for Appellant.

Fred N. Howser, Attorney General, and Doris H. Maier, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

At about 7:30 p.m. on August 30, 1949, defendant, a 20-year-old Mexican farm laborer, together with Gonzales and Sandoval, entered the La Moderna Cafe in Grimes, California and embarked upon an evening of beer drinking. They had originally set out to take Gonzales from Colusa to his home in Arbuckle at the request of Maria Coronado. Maria was the common-law wife of Sandoval and the mother-in-law of defendant...

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