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PEOPLE v. PURVIS

Docket No. Crim. 7182.

60 Cal.2d 323 (1963)

384 P.2d 424

33 Cal. Rptr. 104

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. THOMAS E. PURVIS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 20, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin N. Pulich, Public Defender, John D. Nunes, Chief Assistant Public Defender, James C. Hooley and Stephen W. Shaughnessy, Assistant Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Albert W. Harris, Jr., and Robert R. Granucci, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

PETERS, J.

Appellant was charged with having murdered (Pen. Code, § 187) Hazel Wilson on December 19, 1957. He was also charged with the prior conviction (September 1950) of the second degree murder of his then wife, Eleanor Purvis. He admitted the prior, and entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. A jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree, found that he was sane at the time of the commission of the crime, and fixed the penalty...

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