People v. Pianezzi

From judgments finding him guilty of murder in the first degree and fixing the punishment as life imprisonment after trial before a jury, defendant appeals. There are also appeals from the orders denying his motions for a new trial.

Viewing the evidence most favorable to the people (respondent), the facts are:

Shortly after midnight on the morning of October 25, 1937, defendant and another man entered a cafe in the city of Los Angeles, shot and killed a man by the name of George Leslie Bruneman who was sitting at a table in the cafe. The two assailants then left the cafe. Frank Greuzard, an…