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PEOPLE v. SANTO

Docket No. Crim. 5564.

43 Cal.2d 319 (1954)

273 P.2d 249

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOHN A. SANTO et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 11, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward Sullivan and Al Matthews, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellants.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, William V. O'Connor, Chief Deputy Attorney General, S. Ernest Roll, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Adolph Alexander, Assistant District Attorney, Jere J. Sullivan, Robert Wheeler and J. Miller Leavy, Deputy District Attorneys, for Respondent.

SCHAUER, J.

John Santo, Emmett Perkins, and Barbara Graham (hereinafter sometimes called defendants) appeal from judgments imposing the death penalty after a jury found them guilty of murder of the first degree and made no recommendation as to punishment, and from orders denying their motions for new trial. Defendants and John True were jointly charged by indictment in Count I with conspiracy to violate sections 211 (robbery), 459 (burglary) and 187 (murder) of the...

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