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PEOPLE v. SANFORD

Docket No. Crim. 4960.

33 Cal.2d 590 (1949)

203 P.2d 534

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WILLIAM H. SANFORD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 11, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald J. Kenny, Public Defender, and William L. Ferndon, Deputy Public Defender, for Appellant.

Fred N. Howser, Attorney General, and Clarence A. Linn, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

CARTER, J.

This is an automatic appeal from a judgment imposing the death penalty for murder in the first degree, and from an order denying defendant's motion for a new trial.

[1a] The defendant, William Sanford, came to San Francisco from Ben Lomond about the 14th of June, 1948. He lived in various cheap hotels in the Mission District for a period of about a week, but then decided he would rather live in a private home. He walked about the district...

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