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PEOPLE v. ST. MARTIN

Docket No. Crim. 12490.

1 Cal.3d 524 (1970)

463 P.2d 390

83 Cal. Rptr. 166

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. NORMAN J. ST. MARTIN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 14, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Coleman A. Blease, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Edsel W. Haws and Daniel J. Kremer, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

PETERS, J.

Defendant, a life prisoner, was charged with an assault with malice aforethought and with a deadly weapon and by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury upon another inmate, James Carter. (Pen. Code, § 4500.) A jury found defendant guilty as charged and fixed the penalty at death. This appeal is automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)

On the morning of January 7, 1968, Sergeant...

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