People v. Burwell

Eugene Burwell and James A. Rogers, inmates of the state prison at San Quentin, were charged with murdering two San Quentin guards, Charles W. Wiget and Vern A. Mackin. Verdicts of conviction without recommendation as to penalty were returned by the jury and death sentences were imposed. There is here an appeal from the judgment of conviction and from an order denying a motion for a new trial as to each defendant.

The defendant Burwell was the chief clerk of the library in the main prison or so-called “Quentin side” thereof. Burwell’s friend, the defendant Rogers, lived in the so-called…