PEOPLE v. SMITH

Docket No. Crim. 8547.

63 Cal.2d 779 (1966)

409 P.2d 222

48 Cal. Rptr. 382

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LEAMAN RUSSEL SMITH, BARBARA RUTH WALKER and DONALD E. CASTNER, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton Marks and George V. Denny III, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Erling J. Hovden, Public Defender, Wilbur F. Littlefield and James L. McCormick, Deputy Public Defenders, for Defendants and Appellants.

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


MOSK, J.

Defendants Leaman Smith, Barbara Walker, and Donald Castner appeal from judgments entered upon jury verdicts finding them guilty of conspiracy to commit forgery and burglary (Count I), the murder of Charles Monaghan (Count II), the murder of Robert Endler (Count III), the attempted murder of Stephen Suzuki (Count IV), and the attempted murder of Endel Jurman (Count V). The jury found the murders to be of the first...

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