People v. Valentine

28 Cal.2d 121 (1946)

THE PEOPLE, Respondent,

v.

JOHN VALENTINE, Appellant.

Crim. No. 4601.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

Apr. 30, 1946.

Marshall Denton, Jr., for Appellant in District Court of Appeal and Clyde C. Shoemaker for Appellant in Supreme Court.

Robert W. Kenny, Attorney General, and Frank Richards, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

SCHAUER, J.

Defendant has been tried on a charge of murdering Raymon Boyd. A jury found him guilty of murder of the first degree and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and from an order denying his…