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PEOPLE v. KIRKES

Docket No. Crim. 5341.

39 Cal.2d 719 (1952)

249 P.2d 1

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. LEONARD M. KIRKES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 17, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.P. Butcher, Canfield & Westwick and John A. Westwick for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Stanford D. Herlick, Deputy Attorney General, David S. Licker, District Attorney (Santa Barbara), Vern Thomas, Assistant District Attorney, and Frank J. McCarthy, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.

EDMONDS, J.

Leonard M. Kirkes was indicted for the murder of Margaret Senteney more than eight years after she was killed. A jury found him guilty of murder of the second degree and he has appealed from the judgment entered upon the verdict and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

In 1942, Margaret, then 20 years of age, was living in Carpenteria. She left her parents shortly after dinner on a Friday...

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