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PEOPLE v. PURVIS

Docket No. Crim. 6434.

52 Cal.2d 871 (1959)

346 P.2d 22

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. THOMAS PURVIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 6, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin N. Pulich and George Nye, Public Defenders (Alameda), and H. Reed Searle, Assistant Public Defender, for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, John S. McInerny, Edward P. O'Brien and Arlo E. Smith, Deputy Attorneys General, J. Frank Coakley, District Attorney (Alameda), and Francis W. Vukota, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

Defendant was charged with the murder of Mrs. Hazel Wilson. He entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. A jury found him guilty of murder of the first degree, fixed the penalty at death, and found that he was sane at the time of the commission of the crime. The trial court denied defendant's motion for a new trial and sentenced him to death. This appeal is automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)

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