PEOPLE v. PRESTON

Docket No. Crim. 12966.

9 Cal.3d 308 (1973)

508 P.2d 300

107 Cal. Rptr. 300

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. KENNETH PRESTON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 5, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Robert Y. Bell, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Albert W. Harris, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Granucci, Derald E. Granberg and William D. Stein, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

THE COURT.

This is a companion case to People v. Sommerhalder, ante, p. 290 [107 Cal.Rptr. 289, 508 P.2d 289]. The defendants were jointly charged with two counts of murder (Pen. Code, § 187), but were separately tried and convicted of murder in the first degree (Pen. Code, § 189). Each received the death penalty. This is the...

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