People v. Rosoto

These are automatic appeals from judgments of guilty of murder in the first degree setting the penalty at death.

On March 9, 1957, shortly after it was closed at 2 a. m., the bar of the South Seas Restaurant in Anaheim, California, was robbed by armed bandits. Defendant Rosoto (hereinafter referred to as “Rosoto”), Michael Rosoto (Rosoto’s half-brother, hereinafter referred to as “Michael”), Thomas Wearen Jenkyn and Warren Bruce Larson were involved in the robbery. Michael and Jenkyn wore silk-stocking masks, while Rosoto wore a blue-black yachting cap. Larson was in the bar pretending to be…