People v. Boss

Defendants, George Boss and George Davis, were jointly tried and convicted of murder of the first degree in the Superior Court of the County of Sacramento. The jury was fully instructed as to its right to relieve either of said appellants of the death penalty, but it nevertheless refused to exercise its discretion in favor of the lesser penalty and returned a verdict which carried with it the death penalty.

The defendants, at the hour of about 6:10 o’clock P. M., November 18, 1929, entered the store of Arata Brothers, located at the northeast comer of Sixteenth and S. Streets, in the city of…