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PEOPLE v. MERKOURIS

Docket No. Crim. 6403.

52 Cal.2d 672 (1959)

344 P.2d 1

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JAMES MERKOURIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 16, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellery E. Cuff, Public Defender (Los Angeles), Richard B. Goethals, John A. Tolmasov and Richard W. Erskine, Deputy Public Defenders and Morris Lavine for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, and Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

McCOMB, J.

Defendant was found guilty on two counts of first degree murder, and the jury fixed the penalty as death. His appeal is automatic, pursuant to section 1239, subdivision (b), of the Penal Code.1

On November 15, 1954, two informations were filed against defendant by the district attorney of Los Angeles County, charging him with having murdered Despine Forbes and Robert P. Forbes on or about September 20, 1954. Defendant...

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