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PEOPLE v. CALDWELL

Docket No. Crim. 5621.

43 Cal.2d 864 (1955)

279 P.2d 539

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOHNSON WILLIAM CALDWELL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 28, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rubin Tepper, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

Defendant was charged by information with the murder of his wife, Lily Pearl Storts Caldwell, and with four previous convictions of felony. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder, admitted the convictions, and waived trial by jury. The court found him guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced him to death. This appeal is automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)

In early February, 1954, defendant informed the Arkansas State...

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