PEOPLE v. WATKINS

Docket No. 4114.

248 Cal.App.2d 603 (1967)

56 Cal. Rptr. 734

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. VELTON WATKINS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

February 17, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willard L. Weddell, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Raymond M. Momboisse and Christopher Longaker, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


FRIEDMAN, J.

A jury found defendants Watkins and Foster guilty of the first degree murder of Vincent Delaney. Watkins alone appeals. His codefendant, Foster, had also been charged with assault with a deadly weapon upon Jose Vargas. Prior to the murder trial, Foster pleaded guilty to the Vargas assault.

Both defendants were represented at the trial by Mr. Robert N. Chargin, Public Defender of San Joaquin County. On appeal Watkins asserts a conflict of interest...

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