People v. Matthew

This appeal is by the defendants Williams and Pope, who, with the defendants Matthew, Warmley, and Sinnel, were jointly charged with the murder of one Coleman Stone, the proprietor of a grocery at Bell Station, near the city of Los Angeles. The defendant Warmley, it would seem, was not apprehended. The remaining four defendants were tried jointly. Matthew and Sinnel were convicted of murder in the first degree, the death penalty was imposed upon them, and they have taken an appeal to the supreme court. The defendants Pope and Williams were convicted of murder in the second degree, and now…