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PEOPLE v. JORDAN

Docket No. Crim. 5698.

45 Cal.2d 697 (1955)

290 P.2d 484

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. SMITH EDWARD JORDAN et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 2, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vince Monroe Townsend, Jr., and Enrico Dell'Osso for Appellants.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, Raymond M. Momboisse, Deputy Attorney General, J. Frank Coakley, District Attorney (Alameda), Robert S. Anderson and Richard C. Lynch, Deputy District Attorneys, for Respondent.

SHENK, J.

The defendants were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to suffer the penalty of death. Their motions for a new trial were denied. They appeal from the judgments and from the orders denying their motions for a new trial.

On Saturday evening, March 28, 1953, Charles Rose, a driver for the Yellow Cab Company, was found slumped in a semiconscious condition behind the wheel of his cab in front of a house located at 3428 Haven Street, Oakland...

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