PEOPLE v. HARDENBROOK

Docket No. Crim. 5939.

48 Cal.2d 345 (1957)

309 P.2d 424

THE PEOPLE Respondent, v. DAVID J. HARDENBROOK, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 12, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell Yeager, Public Defender (Imperial County), for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and William E. James, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


CARTER, J.

This is an automatic appeal from a judgment imposing the death penalty after a jury verdict finding the defendant guilty of first degree murder and fixing the penalty as death. Defendant was found sane by a jury after trial on his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The record does not disclose that a motion for a new trial was made by or on behalf of defendant.

Defendant, David J. Hardenbrook, was...

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