PEOPLE v. JONES

Docket No. 17978.

16 Cal.App.3d 837 (1971)

94 Cal. Rptr. 312

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WILLIAM ARTHUR JONES, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

April 20, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Richard H. Levin, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Kenneth C. Young, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

KAUS, P.J.

The only question on this appeal is whether it was error for the trial court to permit defendant to represent himself after the court, on an adequate record, had twice found that the defendant was unable to do so, where no further showing of the defendant's capacity was made, and where the only apparent reason for the new and different ruling was that the defendant...

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