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IN RE MORSE

Docket No. Crim. 10872.

70 Cal.2d 702 (1969)

452 P.2d 601

76 Cal. Rptr. 385

In re JOSEPH BERNARD MORSE on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 10, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Bernard Morse, in pro. per., Benjamin Dreyfus, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Garry, Dreyfus, McTernan & Brotsky for Petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Albert W. Harris, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Robert R. Granucci, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

SULLIVAN, J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that he is unlawfully imprisoned under a judgment of conviction of two counts of first degree murder. In 1962, a jury convicted petitioner of the first degree murder of his mother and sister and fixed the punishment on each count at death.1 On his automatic appeal (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b)) we reversed the judgment insofar as it related to the penalty and affirmed...

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