PEOPLE v. DOUGLAS

Docket No. Crim. 7710.

61 Cal.2d 430 (1964)

392 P.2d 964

38 Cal. Rptr. 884

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WILLIAM DOUGLAS et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 18, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin M. Mitchelson and Burton Marks, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendants and Appellants.

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


PETERS, J.

After a jury trial, defendants Douglas and Meyes were convicted of ten counts of robbery, one count of assault with intent to commit murder, and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. In addition, Meyes was adjudged to be an habitual criminal, having been found to have suffered convictions of burglary in 1948 and of two robberies in 1950 and 1951. Both defendants appealed from the judgments of conviction and from the denials of their motions for new...

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