PEOPLE v. RIVERS

Docket No. Crim. 10411.

66 Cal.2d 1000 (1967)

429 P.2d 171

59 Cal. Rptr. 851

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN RIVERS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

July 7, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan L. Rudick, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

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


TRAYNOR, C.J.

John Rivers and two codefendants, Benny Carter and Walter Robinson, were convicted in 1960 of first degree robbery (Pen. Code, § 211).1 Rivers alone appealed. He abandoned the appeal after his application for appointment of counsel on appeal was denied. The appeal was dismissed in 1961. Pursuant to Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353 [9 L.Ed.2d 811, 83 S.Ct. 814], this court...

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