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PEOPLE v. CANNADY

Docket No. Crim. 14214.

8 Cal.3d 379 (1972)

503 P.2d 585

105 Cal. Rptr. 129

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ROBERT STERLING CANNADY et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 29, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Robert N. Harris, Jr., and Ralph D. Drayton, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendants and Appellants.

Thomas C. Lynch and Evelle J. Younger, Attorneys General, Edsel W. Haws and Arnold O. Overoye, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BURKE, J.

Robert Sterling Cannady and Bufford Lee Beard, life prisoners, were indicted for an assault with malice aforethought and with a deadly weapon upon another inmate, Leonard Shiekscon Thompson (Pen. Code, § 4500). A jury found defendants guilty as charged and fixed Cannady's penalty at death and Beard's at life imprisonment. Cannady's automatic appeal is now before us (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b)), and Beard...

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