PEOPLE v. McKAY

Docket No. Crim. 5212.

37 Cal.2d 792 (1951)

236 P.2d 145

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JAMES McKAY et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rupert Crittenden and Kennedy Jackson, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellants.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier and Wallace G. Colthurst, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


TRAYNOR, J.

Defendants James McKay and Robert Sturm, 18 and 19 years of age respectively, escaped from a Youth Authority camp at Whitmore in Shasta County. They went to Seattle, where they were arrested and detained. Earl Sholes, undersheriff, and Dan Heryford, a deputy sheriff of Shasta County, took custody of defendants in Seattle. On the return trip by automobile the two officers rode in front, the two defendants in back. Each defendant was handcuffed separately...

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