TRAYNOR, J. A jury found defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed the penalty at death. The trial court denied his motion for a new trial and sentenced him to death. This appeal is automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).) Defendant was born in 1917 and was reared in a mountainous community in eastern Tennessee. He attended school only throu…
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