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PEOPLE v. WETZEL

Docket No. 7572.

198 Cal.App.2d 541 (1961)

17 Cal. Rptr. 879

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ROBERT WILLIAM WETZEL, Defendant and Appellant.

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

December 27, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gladys Towles Root and Eugene V. McPherson for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and George W. Kell, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

HERNDON, J.

After a jury trial, appellant Robert William Wetzel was found guilty of murder in the second degree in that he killed one Doris Louise McCarthy in violation of section 187 of the Penal Code. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and from the order denying his motion for a new trial. Appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the judgment in that (1) the prosecution failed to prove the corpus delicti; and (2) that the incriminating...

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