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PEOPLE v. MERCER

Docket No. 4089.

210 Cal.App.2d 153 (1962)

26 Cal. Rptr. 502

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CHARLES E. MERCER, Defendant and Appellant.

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

November 26, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas G. Cowan and Willard E. Stone for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, John S. McInerny and Robert R. Granucci, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

SHOEMAKER, J.

Defendant Charles Mercer appeals from a conviction of murder in the second degree.

Early in the morning of May 9, 1961, defendant Mercer, an ex-Marine employed as a Fuller Brush salesman, walked into the sheriff's office in Salinas, California, and stated that he had killed a man. He told where the body was located and accompanied several officers to the scene. At the site, the officers found an expended bullet in the center of a large

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