Defendant John L. Nelson appeals from the judgment entered after a jury convicted him of first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187). At the trial the People urged his conviction of murder in the first degree not only on the ground the homicide was deliberate and premeditated, but also on the ground that Nelson committed the killing in the perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate, rape. The major issue on...
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