PEOPLE v. MITCHELL

Docket No. 586.

1 Cal.App.3d 35 (1969)

81 Cal. Rptr. 478

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JACK WESLEY MITCHELL, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

October 20, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

William M. Young, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, Edsel W. Haws and Charles P. Just, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GARGANO, J.

Jack Wesley Mitchell and Hance Buddy Watkins were convicted of burglary in violation of section 459 of the Penal Code. Mitchell appeals from the judgment entered on the jury's verdict. His main contention for reversal, and the only contention which has substance, is that he was deprived of effective aid by counsel because he and Watkins were tried at the same time and represented by the same deputy public defender...

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