PEOPLE v. BENNETT

Docket No. 2892.

119 Cal.App.2d 224 (1953)

259 P.2d 476

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WILLIAM B. BENNETT, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

July 14, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest Spagnoli and John W. Bussey for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Charles E. McClung, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


NOURSE, P.J.

The defendant was tried to a jury on five indictments charging 13 separate offenses, and a prior conviction of a felony. He admitted the prior conviction and went to the jury with a general denial of all the other charges. He insisted upon conducting his own defense and refused the offer of the trial court to assign counsel to aid him. After 10 days of trial the defendant was found guilty of six of the 13 offenses charged in the indictment, i.e., burglary...

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