Legal Opinion
Burwell v. Teets
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 3, 1957No. Nos. 15312, 15313PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POPE, Circuit Judge.
Burwell and Rogers were inmates of the California State Penitentiary at San Quentin. On the evening of January 14, 1952, in what was apparently an effort to escape from the prison, they killed two prison guards and attacked and seriously injured two other guards. They were ■charged with murder, verdicts of guilty were returned, and death sentences imposed. Upon their mandatory appeals to the Supreme Court of California, they urged among other assignments of error, that upon their trial (they were tried together), they had been denied certain rights under the Constitution…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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