Seiterle v. Superior Court

57 Cal.2d 397 (1962)

DAVID JACOB SEITERLE, Petitioner,

v.

THE SUPERIOR COURT OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Respondent.

L. A. No. 26574.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

Mar. 15, 1962.

Earl Klein for Petitioner.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, William O. Mackey, District Attorney, and Roland Wilson, Chief Trial Attorney, for Respondent.

DOOLING, J.

The object of this proceeding is to prevent the respondent court from retrying the issue of penalty on two murder counts and so subjecting petitioner to "double prosecution…