PEOPLE v. CORWIN

Docket No. Crim. 6395.

52 Cal.2d 404 (1959)

340 P.2d 626

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. LAWRENCE GLENN CORWIN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 24, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellery E. Cuff, Public Defender (Los Angeles), Richard S. Buckley and Richard W. Erskine, Deputy Public Defenders, for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, and William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent.


SPENCE, J.

Defendant was found guilty of murder of the first degree and, after proceedings pursuant to section 190.1 of the Penal Code, the jury returned a verdict imposing the death penalty. His motion for a new trial was denied. The appeal is automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)

Defendant does not question the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction nor complain of any error during the trial on the issue of his guilt. He confines...

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