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PEOPLE v. SHIPP

Docket No. Crim. 7236.

59 Cal.2d 845 (1963)

382 P.2d 577

31 Cal. Rptr. 457

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. OSCAR SHIPP, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 18, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton Marks, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Jack E. Goertzen, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

Oscar Shipp and La Verne Jones were found guilty of the robbery of Bernard Wilkinson (Count I) and the robbery and first degree murder of Albert Hawley (Counts II and III). For the murder of Hawley the jury fixed the penalties as death for Shipp and life imprisonment for Jones. Jones does not appeal. Shipp's appeal is automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)

The defendants and both victims were residents of the President Hotel in Los Angeles...

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