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PEOPLE v. WATSON

Docket No. 7544.

198 Cal.App.2d 707 (1961)

18 Cal. Rptr. 234

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. FRANK G. WATSON, Defendant and Appellant.

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

December 29, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, and Jack E. Goertzen, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

ASHBURN, J.

Convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, defendant Frank G. Watson appeals from the judgment. He did not testify or call any witnesses in defense. The main argument of his present counsel is that the corpus delicti was not proved without the aid of defendant's own admissions and hence the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict.

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