People v. Talbot

-This is an automatic appeal (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b)) from a judgment, after trial before a jury, on verdicts finding defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and imposing the death penalty.

*695Facts: On March 13, 1965, about 6 :30 a.m., the mutilated body of Michael Dean Bartholomew was discovered in a rocky beach area below State Highway 1, several miles south of Oxnard, by Sergeant Maurice Mellencamp.

About 9 a.m. Sergeant Wyneken went to defendant’s residence, 5305 Beachcomber, Oxnard Shores, Oxnard. Parked across the street from 5311 Beachcomber were two automobiles, a green 1950…