PEOPLE v. NEWSON

Docket No. Crim. 5136.

37 Cal.2d 34 (1951)

230 P.2d 618

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JERRY NEWSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 27, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edises & Treuhaft, Bertram Edises and Robert E. Treuhaft for Appellant.

Fred N. Howser, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Deputy Attorney General, J. Frank Coakley, District Attorney, Laurence E. Dayton, Assistant District Attorney and John S. Cooper, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.


EDMONDS, J.

Jerry Newson was convicted of murdering Marjorie Wilson and Robert Savage. The jury found each of the crimes to be of the first degree and, pursuant to the verdicts, sentences of death were imposed. The principal ground relied upon as requiring reversal of the judgments and the order denying a new trial concerns the evidence identifying Newson as the person who committed the homicides.

Savage and Mrs. Wilson were found dead in a drugstore. Each...

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