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PEOPLE v. COLEMAN

Docket Nos. Crim. 12369, 13437.

71 Cal.2d 1159 (1969)

459 P.2d 248

80 Cal. Rptr. 920

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. OTIS RONALD COLEMAN, Defendant and Appellant. In re OTIS RONALD COLEMAN on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 3, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Z. Marer, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Keogh & Marer and Keogh & Lundgren for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Robert R. Granucci, John T. Murphy and Horace Wheatley, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

TRAYNOR, C.J.

A jury found defendant guilty of the first degree murder of Vincent Sulezich and fixed the penalty at death. The trial court denied a motion for a new trial or to reduce the penalty to life imprisonment and entered judgment on the verdict. This appeal is automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).) We also have before us a petition for habeas corpus challenging the judgment.

Vincent Sulezich operated a cocktail bar in Newark, California. He...

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