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PEOPLE v. AMAYA

Docket No. Crim. 5363.

40 Cal.2d 70 (1952)

251 P.2d 324

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. DARIO AMAYA, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 17, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivan C. Sperbeck for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, J.F. Coakley, District Attorney (Alameda), and Francis W. Vukota, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.

SPENCE, J.

Appellant Amaya and his codefendant Mason were jointly charged with the crime of murder, to which they both pleaded not guilty. Amaya was also charged with a prior felony conviction, which he admitted. After a joint trial before a jury, verdicts of guilty of murder in the first degree were returned against both defendants, the verdict against Mason bearing the recommendation of life imprisonment but that against Amaya being without recommendation. Amaya...

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