Hopkins

People v. Hopkins

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119 Cal. Rptr. 61·1975 Cal. App. LEXIS 965·44 Cal. App. 3d 669
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJanuary 20, 1975Crim. 12357California2,633 words

Opinion

Opinion

Elkington, J.

Following his jury waiver, defendant Terry J. Hopkins was found guilty by the trial court of the following offenses:

The judgment which was thereafter entered provided that the sentence on each of the charges was to run concurrently with the sentences on the others.

The appeal is from the judgment.

The evidence disclosed that Hopkins and some person unknown forced open the apartment door of Mrs. Turner, 89 years of age, demanding money and liquor. During the course of the next hour the two men knocked the lady over, kicked her, jabbed her repeatedly with a sharp fork, choked her and kept hitting her in the face. While one of the men held her arms behind her back, the other punched her, breaking her. shoulder. She testified that while holding her on a chesterfield one of the men “hit me on one side of my head and knocked me over this way, then he would come back with the other and hit me that way.” When the men were finally told where Mrs. Turner’s money was, they emptied her purse of its contents. Before the men left they tied her with a telephone cord which had been yanked from the wall. And as a final gesture, one of the men, after “that salami” had been taken out of…

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