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PEOPLE v. PURVIS

Docket No. Crim. 6769.

56 Cal.2d 93 (1961)

362 P.2d 713

13 Cal. Rptr. 801

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

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 15, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin N. Pulich, Public Defender, James C. Hooley and Thomas Francis Lyons, Assistant Public Defenders, for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Arlo E. Smith and John S. McInerny, Deputy Attorneys General, J. Frank Coakley, District Attorney, and Frank Vukota, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

This appeal is automatic from a judgment imposing the death penalty. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).) Defendant had been found guilty of the first degree murder of Hazel Wilson, and sentenced to death. The judgment was affirmed on appeal insofar as it adjudged defendant guilty, but reversed insofar as it imposed the death penalty. (People v. Purvis, 52 Cal.2d 871, 884-887 [346 P.2d...

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