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PEOPLE v. HUGHES

Docket No. 2916.

171 Cal.App.2d 362 (1959)

340 P.2d 679

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOHNNIE CAREY HUGHES, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

June 16, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Anderson, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, and Lloyd Hinkelman, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

VAN DYKE, P.J.

This is an appeal from a judgment declaring appellant guilty of murder of the first degree, and fixing his punishment at life imprisonment, and from an order denying a new trial. Appellant contends: (1) That the court erred in admitting his extrajudicial statements into evidence; in giving an instruction offered by the People; in refusing to give an instruction requested by him; and, (2) that the verdict of the jury found him guilty of second degree...

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