PEOPLE v. DITSON

Docket No. Crim. 6843.

57 Cal.2d 415 (1962)

369 P.2d 714

20 Cal. Rptr. 165

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ALLEN DITSON and CARLOS GONZALES CISNEROS, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 15, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen Ditson, in pro. per., William A. Drake, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Harold J. Ackerman, W.M. Brooks and Hugh R. Manes for Defendants and Appellants.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Gordon Ringer, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


SCHAUER, J.

Defendants Ditson and Cisneros appeal (by operation of Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b)) from judgments of death imposed pursuant to jury verdicts finding each of them guilty of murder in the first degree and fixing the penalty at death, and from orders denying their motions for new trial and for reduction of the penalty or the degree of the offense.

Defendants contend that they were denied a fair trial and due process of law by reason of the...

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