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PEOPLE v. MORSE

Docket No. Crim. 7339.

60 Cal.2d 631 (1964)

388 P.2d 33

36 Cal. Rptr. 201

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOSEPH BERNARD MORSE, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 7, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Enright, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Harelson, Enright, Von Kalinowski & Levitt 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.

TOBRINER, J.

This case involves an automatic appeal under Penal Code section 1239, subdivision (b), following verdicts finding defendant guilty of two counts of murder in the first degree and imposing the death penalty.

The three separate counts of the indictment charged defendant with the murder of his mother and sister and with assault upon the person of one Ellen Young. To these counts defendant entered a plea of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity...

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