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PEOPLE v. BENTLEY

Docket No. Crim. 7105.

58 Cal.2d 458 (1962)

374 P.2d 645

24 Cal. Rptr. 685

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES ABNER BENTLEY, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 27, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Montgomery Carter, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, Raymond M. Momboisse and Edsel W. Haws, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

By information defendants Bentley, Waldo, and Chapple were charged with the crimes of armed robbery (Pen. Code, § 211a), conspiracy to commit armed robbery (Pen. Code, § 182), and murder (Pen. Code, § 187). They all pleaded not guilty. Bentley also pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Thereafter Waldo and Bentley withdrew their pleas of not guilty and pleaded guilty. The trial court determined that the murder was of the first degree...

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