People v. Dias

The defendant was convicted of the double murder of Stanley Montaro and Mary Munoz, aged twenty-three and twenty years, respectively, committed in a suburban district of San Leandro, county of Alameda, this state, on December 19, 1929. The indictment upon which he was convicted contained two counts, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree, without recommendation of imprisonmen';, upon both counts. The murdered persons were betrothed, and had parked the Chevrolet coupe, in which they were seated at the time they were fired upon, by the side of Holland Avenue,…