PEOPLE v. FRIEND

Docket No. Crim. 6146.

50 Cal.2d 570 (1958)

327 P.2d 97

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WILBERT FELIX FRIEND, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 30, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Sorbo, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellant.

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


GIBSON, C.J.

Defendant previously appealed from a judgment which imposed the death penalty in accordance with a jury verdict. We upheld his conviction of murder of the first degree, but, because of errors relating to the issue of punishment, we remanded the cause for the sole purpose of redetermining that issue. (People v. Friend, 47 Cal.2d 749, 772 [306 P.2d 463].) On retrial, the...

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