PEOPLE v. BASSETT

Docket No. Crim. 11130.

69 Cal.2d 122 (1968)

443 P.2d 777

70 Cal. Rptr. 193

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. FRED KIPP BASSETT, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 8, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Kipp Bassett, in pro. per., and Richard A. Ibanez, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, Richard D. Huffman, and James H. Kline, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


MOSK, J.

Defendant was charged by information with two counts of murder, and pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to both. The jury returned verdicts of first degree murder on each count, found defendant sane at the time of the commission of the crimes, and fixed the penalty at death. The court denied motions for new trial and for reduction of the penalty. The appeal is automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)

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