People v. Pulido

Opinion

WERDEGAR, J.

Penal Code section 189 1 provides that any killing committed in the perpetration of specified felonies, including robbery, is first degree murder. Under long-established rules of criminal complicity, liability for such a murder extends to all persons “jointly engaged at the time of such killing in the perpetration of or an attempt to perpetrate the crime of robbery” (People v. Martin (1938) 12 Cal.2d 466, 472 [85 P.2d 880]) “when one of them kills while acting in furtherance of the common design.” (People v. Washington (1965) 62 Cal.2d 777, 782 [44 Cal.Rptr. 442, 402 P.2d…