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PEOPLE v. DAUGHERTY

Docket No. Crim. 5366.

40 Cal.2d 876 (1953)

256 P.2d 911

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOSEPH A. DAUGHERTY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 5, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mancuso, Herron & Winn and John Wynne Herron for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier and Leo V. McInnis, Deputy Attorneys General, and Joseph Maddux, District Attorney (Sonoma), for Respondent.

CARTER, J.

This case comes to us by automatic appeal from a judgment of conviction of first degree murder imposing the death penalty, finding defendant sane, and from an order denying a new trial. Defendant made the twofold plea of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity.

Defendant is a man about 50 years of age. He married Florena Daugherty, the victim of the homicide, in 1933, and they had five children...

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