People v. Williams

The defendants were charged in Alameda County with the murder on January 19, 1947, of Arthur C. Nichols, a taxicab driver. The jury returned verdicts finding them guilty of murder of the first degree without recommendation. They appeal from the judgments imposing' the death penalty and from orders denying motions for a new trial.

In December, 1946, the defendant Bowie came to California from Louisiana with Mrs. Belle Jarrett whom he had “bailed out” of jail on some charge in that state and who was married to a man in the United States Army serving overseas. They took a room together on the…