PEOPLE v. RICHARDSON

Docket Nos. 3636, 3637.

182 Cal.App.2d 620 (1960)

6 Cal. Rptr. 61

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. EARNEST RICHARDSON, Appellant. THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. CHARLES MASON, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

July 12, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce W. Stilson and Kenneth E. Zwerin, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Appellants.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, Arlo E. Smith and Peter T. Kennedy, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


DRAPER, J.

A jury found defendants guilty of murder in the first degree, and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. Defendants separately appeal from the judgment.

The prosecution introduced a statement by defendant Mason in which he said that: He and defendant Richardson were in a bar in Salinas the night of decedent's death. Richardson said he knew where they could get some money. They went to the home of Shapiro, the decedent, and knocked at the door....

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