PEOPLE v. CRUZ

Docket No. 13703.

264 Cal.App.2d 350 (1968)

70 Cal. Rptr. 603

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. FELIX GUZMAN CRUZ, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

July 25, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dudlely Gray for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, Gerald H. Genard, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


KAUS, P.J.

Shortly before midnight on September 20, 1966, defendant and Betty Jo Hales were in the living room of defendant's apartment. Betty Jo was not wearing clothes. Defendant was holding a bolt action Enfield rifle, which discharged two bullets within a space of about three seconds. They entered Betty Jo's body, one below her right breast and the other to the right of her navel. Both wounds were fatal. Defendant immediately went to the apartment of his landlady...

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