People v. Mercer

210 Cal.App.2d 153 (1962)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

CHARLES E. MERCER, Defendant and Appellant.

Crim. No. 4089.

California Court of Appeals. First Dist., Div. Two.

Nov. 26, 1962.

Douglas G. Cowan and Willard E. Stone for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, John S. McInerny and Robert R. Granucci, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

SHOEMAKER, J.

Defendant Charles Mercer appeals from a conviction of murder in the second degree.

Early in the morning of May 9, 1961, defendant Mercer, an ex-Marine employed as a Fuller Brush salesman, walked into the…