In Re Benoit

10 Cal.3d 72 (1973)

514 P.2d 97

109 Cal. Rptr. 785

In re RAY EDWARD BENOIT on Habeas Corpus. In re RICHARD WYCKOFF on Habeas Corpus.

Docket Nos. Crim. 16642, 16627.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 24, 1973.

COUNSEL

Peter G. Fetros, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioners.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Edward A. Hinz, Jr., Chief Assistant Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, Willard F. Jones, David M. Blackman and Charles P. Just, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

OPINION

SULLIVAN, J.

In these separate proceedings in habeas corpus…