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PEOPLE v. JACKSON

Docket Nos. Crim. 8500, 8501.

62 Cal.2d 803 (1965)

402 P.2d 140

44 Cal. Rptr. 452

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN BELL JACKSON et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 26, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Bell Jackson and Edward Jackson, in pro. per., and Frank C. Morales, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendants and Appellants.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Gordon Ringer, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

PETERS, J.

Petitioners, in this consolidated petition, seek relief under rule 31(a) of the California Rules of Court. Under that rule relief may be granted from default in failing to file the notice of appeal required to be filed within 10 days of the time of sentence. [1] It is now settled law that this power to relieve from default should be liberally construed to avoid, if reasonably possible, the loss of the right to appeal. (See People v....

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