PETERS, J. Defendants pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree, waived a jury trial on the issue of punishment, and, after a five-day hearing on that issue, were sentenced to death. The appeals are automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).) On April 6, 1958, Ruth Swanson Rivers, a woman of advanced middle age…
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