Legal Opinion
In Re Walker
California Supreme Court
Decided February 14, 1974No. Crim. 16711PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BURKE, J.
The People appeal from an order granting a writ of habeas corpus which, in its effect, sets aside petitioner Erwin M. Walker’s 1947 convictions on one count of first degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. (See Pen. Code, § 1506.) For the reasons hereinafter stated we have concluded that the order must be reversed but that petitioner’s sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole for the murder should be modified by the deletion of the italicized words. Since *771several claims were not reached by the Solano County Superior Court, the case is remanded to…
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