PEOPLE v. Lo CIGNO

Docket No. 9055.

237 Cal.App.2d 470 (1965)

46 Cal. Rptr. 918

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. SAM Lo CIGNO, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

October 13, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Augustine, Jr., for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Jack K. Weber, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


FILES, P.J.

[1a] The single issue argued on this appeal is whether the dismissal of an indictment, following defendant's conviction and reversal of that conviction, barred his subsequent prosecution on a second indictment for the same offense.

In superior court case number 222583 defendant was charged by indictment with the murder of Jack Whalen. After a trial by jury defendant was found guilty...

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