PEOPLE v. FINLEY

Docket No. 8813.

219 Cal.App.2d 330 (1963)

33 Cal. Rptr. 31

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. FRANK FINLEY, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

August 14, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Finley, in pro. per., and Nathaniel J. Friedman, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and H. Warren Siegel, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


ASHBURN, J.

Defendant appeals from a conviction of murder of Marguerite M. Eggleston, the offense being fixed as second degree; also from order denying motion for new trial. Through court-appointed counsel appellant presents five claims of prejudicial error for our consideration.

[1] It is asserted that it was error to permit the autopsy surgeon to detail his "surgery" because of the "highly inflammatory" nature of the evidence. Counsel says in...

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