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PEOPLE v. PIKE

Docket No. Crim. 7039.

58 Cal.2d 70 (1962)

372 P.2d 656

22 Cal. Rptr. 664

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CHARLEY LUTHER PIKE and RICHARD D. CENICEROS, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 27, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellery E. Cuff, Public Defender, David A. Kidney and James L. McCormick, Deputy Public Defenders, Thurmond Arnold, Jr., Russell E. Parsons and Edward I. Gritz for Defendants and Appellants.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, and Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

SCHAUER, J.

By jury verdicts defendants Pike and Ceniceros were found guilty of first degree murder, and Pike was also found guilty of armed robbery. On the murder count the jury fixed the penalty at life imprisonment as to Ceniceros and at death as to Pike. Defendants appeal from the judgments1 rendered accordingly and from orders denying their motions for new trial and Pike's motion to reduce the penalty to life imprisonment. The appeal...

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