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PEOPLE v. LAWRANCE

Docket No. Crim. 5422.

41 Cal.2d 291 (1953)

259 P.2d 439

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOHN CHAUNCEY LAWRANCE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

July 14, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Shaw for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Elizabeth Miller, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

CARTER, J.

This is an automatic appeal (Pen. Code, § 1239) from a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

The defendant, John Chauncey Lawrance, was tried by a jury, found guilty of murder of the first degree and was given the death sentence. The defendant was charged with having murdered one Kathryn Wells, also known as Kathryn Knodel, a human being, to which charge he pleaded not guilty...

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