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PEOPLE v. CHAVEZ

Docket Nos. Crim. 6199, 6210.

50 Cal.2d 778 (1958)

329 P.2d 907

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. MANUEL JOE CHAVEZ et al., Appellants. THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. MANUEL HERNANDEZ, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 19, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Gladstein, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Joseph T. Forno, Harold J. Ackerman and Ward Sullivan for Appellants.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow and Albert Bianchi, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

GIBSON, C.J.

A jury found defendants Manuel Chavez, Clyde Bates, and Manuel Hernandez guilty of murder of the first degree as charged in six counts. The punishment of Bates and Chavez was fixed at death and that of Hernandez at life imprisonment. The jury further found that each of the three defendants was guilty of arson and that, as alleged, Bates had suffered four prior convictions. The appeals of Bates and Chavez are...

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