(DOWNLOAD) "People V. Chapman" by Third Appellate District Court of Appeal of California " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People V. Chapman
- Author : Third Appellate District Court of Appeal of California
- Release Date : January 15, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 76 KB
Description
Ruth Elizabeth Chapman appeals from a judgment imposing concurrent life sentences, after a jury found her guilty of the first degree murder and first degree robbery of Billy Dean Adcock. Mrs. Chapman and a codefendant, Thomas Teale, had been tried together in San Joaquin County in April 1963 and found guilty of Adcock's murder, robbery and kidnaping. Their convictions were affirmed by the California Supreme Court in July 1965 and set aside by the federal Supreme Court for trial error in February 1967. (People v. Teale, 63 Cal. 2d 178 [45 Cal. Rptr. 729, 404 P.2d 209]; Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 [17 L.Ed.2d 705, 87 S.Ct. 824].) After the remand to the California courts, separate trials were ordered and the kidnaping charge dropped. In response to Mrs. Chapman's motion, a change of venue to Sacramento County was ordered and her second trial occurred in the latter county.