PEOPLE v. HILLERY

Docket No. Crim. 7320.

62 Cal.2d 692 (1965)

401 P.2d 382

44 Cal. Rptr. 30

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BOOKER T. HILLERY, JR., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 3, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Booker T. Hillery, Jr., in pro. per., Hugh Wesley Goodwin and Tom Okawara, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk and Thomas C. Lynch, Attorneys General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, and Edsel W. Haws, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


TOBRINER, J.

The jury found defendant guilty of first degree murder and fixed the penalty at death. The court denied defendant's motion for a new trial and entered judgment on the verdict. This appeal comes to us automatically under Penal Code section 1239, subdivision (b).

On November 14, 1963, we unanimously affirmed the judgment of death entered upon the conviction of murder in the first degree.* We granted a rehearing to consider...

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