PEOPLE v. STURGESS

Docket No. 3020.

178 Cal.App.2d 435 (1960)

2 Cal. Rptr. 787

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. EUGENE L. STURGESS, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

February 26, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.E. O'Neill, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier and Raymond M. Momboisse, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


VAN DYKE, P.J.

On May 28, 1959, in Yolo County, California, a jury found appellant guilty of murder in the first degree. On the following day on stipulation that the question of penalty should be submitted to the same jury on the evidence introduced at the trial on the question of guilt the jury fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. On June 2d following, the trial of appellant's plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was tried to the same jury, which found him...

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