[Download] "People V. Brown" by Supreme Court Of California In Bank # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People V. Brown
- Author : Supreme Court Of California In Bank
- Release Date : January 07, 1958
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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A jury found defendant guilty of second degree murder of Lucy Sanchez (count 1) and abortion committed upon Lucy Sanchez (count 2) and upon Clara Thornton (count 3). Defendant appeals from the ensuing judgment of conviction. We have concluded that the judgment should be affirmed as to counts 1 and 3 but that as to count 2 the judgment should be reversed, not because there was any prejudicial error in the proceedings which led to the verdict of guilty on that count but because to permit convictions under both count 1 and count 2 to stand would violate the provision of section 654 of the Penal Code that "An act or omission which is made punishable in different ways by different provisions of this code may be punished under either of such provisions, but in no case can it be punished under more than one..."