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PEOPLE v. JEFFERSON

Docket No. Crim. 5931.

47 Cal.2d 438 (1956)

303 P.2d 1024

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. CLIFFORD JEFFERSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 4, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas R. Greer and Richard A. Case, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Doris H. Maier, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

McCOMB, J.

This is an automatic appeal from a judgment of guilty of violating section 4500 of the Penal Code (assault with a deadly weapon by a prisoner undergoing a life sentence in a state prison)1 after trial by a jury. There is also an appeal from the order denying defendant's motion for a new trial.

On September 13, 1955, defendant, an inmate of Folsom State Prison undergoing a life sentence, assaulted with a deadly weapon...

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