PEOPLE v. DESSAUER

Docket No. Crim. 5269.

38 Cal.2d 547 (1952)

241 P.2d 238

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ROBERT GENE DESSAUER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 7, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Lavine for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Stanford D. Herlick, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


CARTER, J.

Defendant pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to a charge of murder. After trial by the court sitting without a jury he was found sane and guilty of murder of the first degree and sentenced to death. His motion for a new trial was denied. The case is here on automatic appeal from the judgment and order denying the new trial.

Defendant, 28 years of age, and Libby Bershad, the victim of the homicide, had been living together as...

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