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PEOPLE v. DEMENT

Docket No. Crim. 6016.

48 Cal.2d 600 (1957)

311 P.2d 505

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. FOSTER SETH DEMENT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 24, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Westrum & Harvey and George R. Harvey for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Elizabeth Miller, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

SHENK, J.

The defendant was charged by information with the murder of Nina Sue Dement. The jury found him guilty of murder of the first degree and expressly fixed the penalty at death. He appeals from the judgment of conviction. There was no motion for a new trial.

The deceased obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce from the defendant in September, 1955. He had not become reconciled with the requirement imposed...

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