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PEOPLE v. WOLFE

Docket No. Crim. 5532.

42 Cal.2d 663 (1954)

268 P.2d 475

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JAMES FRANKLIN WOLFE et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 2, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony J. Scalora, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellants.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Deputy Attorney General, J. Francis O'Shea, District Attorney (Sacramento), and Edward L. McCarthy, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.

CARTER, J.

Defendants James Franklin Wolfe and Joseph Johansen, while confined in Folsom State Prison serving life sentences, were charged by indictment with the murder, on May 8, 1953, of one Harold Stricker, also an inmate of Folsom, and in Count II with a violation of section 4500 of the Penal Code. They entered pleas of not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity, to Count I, and trial by jury was ordered. Subsequently...

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