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PEOPLE v. DOTSON

Docket No. Crim. 5925.

46 Cal.2d 891 (1956)

299 P.2d 875

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. LAWRENCE GENE DOTSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 10, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Gene Dotson, in pro. per., Donald D. Connors, Jr., under appointment by the Supreme Court, and J. Stewart Harrison, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Arlo E. Smith, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

SHENK, J.

The defendant Lawrence Gene Dotson appeals from a judgment of conviction in violations of sections 187 (murder), 459 (burglary) and 211 (robbery) of the Penal Code, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The defendant and an accomplice were interrupted by Francisco Herrera while in the act of ransacking his home. At gunpoint, Herrera and his party of two other men and women were herded into a...

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