Court Opinion

ID: 9794273
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:02:36.399603+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:34.097739
License: Public Domain

SCHAUER, J., dissenting.
Under the current law of this state the motion of the attorney general to dismiss the appeals should be granted. (People v. Shorts (1948), 32 Cal.2d 502, 506, 512-513, 516 [197 P.2d 330].) Defendants, in their application for stay of execution, failed to show any merit in the appeals, any probable cause for reversal, or any ground for a stay of execution. On the showing made on their application no stay of execution should have been granted and the appeals should have been dismissed forthwith. (People
*239v. Shorts, supra.) The subsequently filed record has not in any material degree either added to or detracted from the showing initially made on the application for stay of execution; if probable cause for reversal was shown on that application (as was necessarily held by the majority) such probable cause still exists and the judgments should be reversed. If the court erred in granting the stays of execution, whether through an excess of caution inspired by the nature of the penalty involved or otherwise, it should now acknowledge the fact and, consistently with the precedent, vacate the stays of execution and dismiss the appeals.