PEOPLE v. COOLEY

Docket No. 36.

211 Cal.App.2d 173 (1962)

27 Cal. Rptr. 543

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DONNELL COOLEY, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

December 20, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Basil Lambros and Samuel Z. Winnikoff for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Barry L. Bunshoft and Raymond M. Momboisse, Deputy Attorneys General, and Kit L. Nelson, District Attorney, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


CONLEY, P.J.

The defendant, Donnell Cooley, known as Spade Cooley in the amusement world, was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree for the killing of his wife, Ella Mae. Thereafter, he withdrew his additional plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and waived a jury with respect to fixing the penalty for his crime. The trial judge sentenced him to life imprisonment. There was no motion for a new trial. A notice of appeal was filed in due course.

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