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PEOPLE v. BOSTICK

Docket No. Crim. 7423.

62 Cal.2d 820 (1965)

402 P.2d 529

44 Cal. Rptr. 649

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. GEORGE W. BOSTICK, WILLIAM ALFRED DAVIS, JR., CLARENCE PITTS and JIMMIE LAWSON, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 3, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B.T. Davis, Jr., Robert W. Stanley and Erling J. Hovden, Public Defender (Los Angeles), under appointment by the Supreme Court, James L. McCormick and J. Stanley Brill, Deputy Public Defenders, and Lee, La Vigne & Davis for Defendants and Appellants.

Stanley Mosk and Thomas C. Lynch, Attorneys General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

PETERS, J.

Defendants George W. Bostick, William Alfred Davis, Jr., Clarence Pitts and Jimmie Lawson were charged with the murder of Oscar J. Williams, and with robbing Williams while armed with a deadly weapon. Bostick and Pitts were charged with and admitted two prior felony convictions. A jury found each guilty of murder in the first degree, guilty of the robbery, and of the charge of being armed at the time of the commission of the offense. On the penalty issue...

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