People v. Clark

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree.

In an information filed in Los Angeles County on December 31, 1964, defendant was charged with murdering Marshall Allen Taylor on December 5,1964. (Pen. Code, § 187.) A jury trial was duly waived and the judge found defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced defendant to the state prison for the term of his natural life. A motion for new trial was denied. A timely notice of appeal was filed.

A résumé of some of the facts is as follows: In March 1964, defendant and a friend, Gary Prothero, rented an…