PEOPLE v. CARTER

Docket No. Crim. 5910.

48 Cal.2d 737 (1957)

312 P.2d 665

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. THOMAS CARTER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 21, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert K. Stone, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Laughlin & McKalson and Robert E. Laughlin for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier and J.M. Sanderson, Deputy Attorneys General, and C. Keith Lyde, District Attorney (Butte) for Respondent.


TRAYNOR, J.

Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and the jury imposed the death penalty. A motion for a new trial was denied. This appeal is automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)

On September 29, 1955, about 3:35 p.m., Frank Carey, owner of the Log Cabin Bar near Chico, was found unconscious on the floor of the card room of his bar, his head bloody and bruised. He never regained consciousness...

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