People v. Green

On this appeal from a judgment after conviction by a jury of murder in the first degree (Pen. Code, § 187) and a jury verdict determining that the penalty be life imprisonment, defendant raises several issues. We shall discuss the facts particularly pertinent to each of these issues in our separate consideration of the points raised on this appeal. Preliminarily, however, we set out the following basic facts as disclosed by the record:

1. Events Prior to the Homicide:

At around 3 o’clock in the afternoon on December 7, 1962, defendant and Eartis Beck, then defendant’s brother-in-law, were…