People v. Santo
California Supreme Court
Edmund 6. Brown, Attorney General, William V. O’Con-nor, Chief Deputy Attorney General, S. Ernest Roll, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Adolph Alexander, Assistant District Attorney, Jere J. Sullivan, Robert Wheeler and J. Miller Leavy, Deputy District Attorneys, for Respondent.
1Opinion of the CourtSchauer, J.
John Santo, Emmett Perkins, and Barbara Graham (hereinafter sometimes called defendants) appeal from judgments imposing the death penalty after a jury found them guilty of murder of the first degree and made no recommendation as to punishment, and from orders denying their motions for new trial. Defendants and John True were jointly charged by indictment in Count I with conspiracy to violate sections 211 (robbery), 459 (burglary) and 187 (murder) of the Penal Code, and in Count II with murder. On motion of the People a severance was granted as to the two counts, and the cause proceeded to…
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