PEOPLE v. STOCKMAN

Docket Nos. Crim. 8417, 8436.

63 Cal.2d 494 (1965)

407 P.2d 277

47 Cal. Rptr. 365

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES ROBERT STOCKMAN, RONALD ANTHONY CATHCART and GENEVIEVE HUMBLE, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 10, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric A. Rose, Richard Levin and Kate Whyner, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendants and Appellants.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and George J. Roth, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


PETERS, J.

The three appellants were convicted of the first degree murder of Carroll Clayton Elwell. The jury imposed the death penalty on Stockman. His appeal is automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).) Appellants Cathcart and Humble were sentenced to life imprisonment. They appeal from the judgments so providing.

On January 5, 1964, Stockman, Cathcart, Miss Humble and Mrs. Horning, the latter two being sisters, left Florida in Stockman's car and came...

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