People v. Charles

In People v. Aranda (1965) 63 Cal.2d 518 [47 Cal.Rptr. 353, 407 P.2d 265], we established rules governing the conduct of joint trials in which one defendant’s extrajudicial statement implicates a codefendant. We hold in the instant case that those rules are available to defendants whose judgments of conviction are still on appeal even though they were tried before the date of the Aranda decision, November 12,1965.

The trial in this ease began on May 28, 1964. .On June 26, 1964, after finding both defendants guilty of ármed robbery (Pen. Code, §§ 211, 211a), the trial court entered the…