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PEOPLE v. CHAPMAN

Docket No. 4665.

261 Cal.App.2d 149 (1968)

67 Cal. Rptr. 601

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RUTH ELIZABETH CHAPMAN, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

April 15, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Johnson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, and Michael H. Fabian, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

FRIEDMAN, J.

Ruth Elizabeth Chapman appeals from a judgment imposing concurrent life sentences, after a jury found her guilty of the first degree murder and first degree robbery of Billy Dean Adcock. Mrs. Chapman and a codefendant, Thomas Teale, had been tried together in San Joaquin County in April 1963 and found guilty of Adcock's murder, robbery and kidnaping. Their convictions were affirmed by the California Supreme Court in July 1965 and set aside by the federal...

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