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PEOPLE v. NASH

Docket No. Crim. 6133.

52 Cal.2d 36 (1959)

338 P.2d 416

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. STEPHEN A. NASH, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 24, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Buckley, Deputy Public Defender (Los Angeles), and George T. Davis, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellant.

Maxwell E. Greenberg as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

Stanley Mosk and Edmund G. Brown, Attorneys General, and Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

SCHAUER, J.

A jury found defendant guilty of first degree murder of Lawrence Rice (count 1), first degree murder of John Berg (count 2), assault with a deadly weapon upon Dennis Butler (count 3), and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury upon Dennis Butler (count 4). They fixed the penalty on each murder count at death and found that defendant was sane at the time of every offense. On this appeal from the ensuing judgment and an order denying...

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