PEOPLE v. WARD

Docket No. Crim. 10714.

66 Cal.2d 571 (1967)

426 P.2d 881

58 Cal. Rptr. 313

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN CLARENCE WARD, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 28, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Clarence Ward, in pro. per., and Don Edgar Burris, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

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


MOSK, J.

Defendant, John Clarence Ward, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with murder, in violation of section 187 of the Penal Code.1 The degree of the crime was not specified in the information or in the plea. The trial court sitting without a jury proceeded to determine the degree of the crime2 and the punishment to be imposed. The court found the killing to be of the first degree, and it imposed...

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