PEOPLE v. ODLE

Docket No. Crim. 5156.

37 Cal.2d 52 (1951)

230 P.2d 345

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOHN CALVIN ODLE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 27, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Z.B. West and Morris Lavine for Appellant.

Fred N. Howser and Edmund G. Brown, Attorneys General, and Frank Richards, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


TRAYNOR, J.

This appeal is from a judgment imposing the death penalty following the conviction of defendant of first degree murder.

Defendant and deceased were married in Huntington Park, California, on April 6, 1947. They lived together in Santa Ana, California, where defendant was employed. Shortly before Christmas, 1948, deceased became a saleslady and department manager for Davis Stationers on East Fourth Street in Santa Ana. Early in March, 1950, deceased...

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