People v. Diaz

*691VALLÉE, J.

Appeal from a judgment of conviction of murder of the first degree rendered pursuant to a verdict, and from an order denying the motion for a new trial. Defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for life. His conviction occurred at the third trial after two juries had disagreed.

The sole point urged for reversal is that the trial court committed reversible error in refusing to allow defendant the number of peremptory challenges to which he was legally entitled.

Defendant was 67 years of age. He had lived for eight or ten years on a ranch about 3.2'miles from San Luis Obispo in the home…