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PEOPLE v. WRIGHT

Docket No. Crim. 6728.

55 Cal.2d 560 (1961)

360 P.2d 325

11 Cal. Rptr. 749

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. RUDOLPH WRIGHT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 20, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas S. Montgomery, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Arlo E. Smith and Albert W. Harris, Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

GIBSON, C.J.

Defendant was charged with violating section 4500 of the Penal Code in that, while undergoing a life sentence in a state prison, he assaulted with malice aforethought Robert Grayson, a fellow prisoner, by means of force likely to produce great bodily harm and that Grayson died as a result of the assault.1 A jury found that defendant was guilty as charged and that he was sane at the time of the commission of the offense. His...

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