IN RE SEARS

Docket No. Crim. 12539.

71 Cal.2d 379 (1969)

455 P.2d 116

78 Cal. Rptr. 180

In re H.B. SEARS on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 19, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.B. Sears, in pro. per., and Thomas M. McGurrin, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Albert W. Harris, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Derald E. Granberg and Eric W. Collins, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


TOBRINER, J.

In 1961 a jury found H.B. Sears (hereinafter designated defendant) and his codefendants, Donald Ketchel and Thomas Sears, guilty of first degree murder and first degree robbery. The jury reached a verdict of life imprisonment for defendant and rendered a death penalty verdict for his codefendants. In People v. Ketchel (1963) 59 Cal.2d 503 [30 Cal.Rptr. 538, ...

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