PEOPLE v. DAVIS

Docket No. Crim. 5881.

48 Cal.2d 241 (1957)

309 P.2d 1

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOHN HACKLEY DAVIS et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 29, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry M. Umann, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Forno & Umann, William Strong, Joseph A. Ball, Clarence S. Hunt, Grant B. Cooper and Ned R. Nelson for Appellants.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, William E. James, Deputy Attorney General, S. Ernest Roll and William E. McKisson, District Attorneys (Los Angeles), Adolph Alexander, Chief Deputy District Attorney, Lynn D. Compton and Gordon W. Jacobson, Deputy District Attorneys for Respondent.


SHENK, J.

The appeals in this case are from judgments imposing the death penalty and from orders denying motions for a new trial.

Lynn V. Feaster, night clerk in a Long Beach liquor store, was killed on the morning of December 23, 1953. He had been shot in the mouth, apparently about midnight. His body was lying near the open cash register drawer and his revolver, still fully loaded, was found near his head. He had a habit of reaching for his gun during a...

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