PEOPLE v. WARD

Docket No. Crim. 6203.

50 Cal.2d 702 (1958)

328 P.2d 777

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. CECIL HERMAN WARD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 19, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Farrell and J. Richard Thomas, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellant.

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


SHENK, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment imposing the death penalty after verdicts finding that the defendant was guilty of murdering Nell and Brenda Parris as charged in two counts of an indictment and that the murders were of the first degree. Following these verdicts proceedings were then taken pursuant to section 190.1 of the Penal Code for the purpose of determining the punishment. The penalty of death was imposed as to each count. Thereafter, on his plea...

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