PEOPLE v. DUNCAN

Docket No. Crim. 6287.

51 Cal.2d 523 (1959)

334 P.2d 858

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. VENDER LEE DUNCAN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 3, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Mancuso, Public Defender (San Francisco), and Waldo F. Postel, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John S. McInerny, Deputy Attorney General, Thomas C. Lynch, District Attorney (San Francisco), and Walter H. Giubbini, Assistant District Attorney, for Respondent.


GIBSON, C.J.

A jury found defendant guilty of two counts of first degree murder. In separate proceedings the penalty was fixed at death for each count, and defendant was found to have been sane when the offenses were committed. (Pen. Code, § 190.1.) His motions for a new trial and modification of the verdicts were denied, and he was sentenced to death. This appeal comes before us automatically. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)

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