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PEOPLE v. HATHCOCK

Docket No. Crim. 13802.

8 Cal.3d 599 (1973)

504 P.2d 476

105 Cal. Rptr. 540

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WELDON LEE HATHCOCK, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 4, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

William A. Smith for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Edsel W. Haws and Charles P. Just, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

After an initial mistrial defendant Weldon Lee Hathcock was convicted upon a jury verdict of two counts of first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187) and two counts of kidnaping (Pen. Code, § 207). A separate jury thereafter set the penalty for each of the two counts of murder at death. (Pen. Code, § 190.) The case is now before us on an automatic appeal. ...

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