PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

Docket No. 5785.

151 Cal.App.2d 173 (1957)

311 P.2d 117

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ROBERT E. WILLIAMS, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

May 21, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gladys Towles Root, Eugene V. McPherson and Joseph A. Armstrong for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Henry K. Workman, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


ASHBURN, J.

Defendant, having been convicted of first degree murder with recommendation of punishment by imprisonment in the state prison for life and having been sentenced accordingly, appeals from the judgment. Counsel make three claims of error warranting a reversal, (1) that the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction of murder, (2) that it is insufficient to establish murder in the first degree, and (3) that prejudicial error was committed in the exclusion...

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