Decided December 23 1968 Location California, United States | Chief Judge Traynor | |
Court Supreme Court of California Full case name The People, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Robert Arthur Anderson, Defendant and Appellant Citation(s) 70 Cal.2d 15, 447 P.2d 94 Associate Judges McComb, Peters, Tobriner, Burke, Sullivan; Peek (Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court sitting under assignment by the Chairman of the Judicial Council) | ||
People v. Anderson, 70 Cal.2d 15, 447 P.2d 942 (1968), is a California criminal case involving evidentiary criteria for the element of premeditation in a first degree murder prosecution, to be sufficient to go to the jury. The case sets forth three categories of evidentiary factors necessary for evidence to be sufficient to support a jury verdict of first degree murder.
The underlying case involved a man drinking, stripping the clothes off of the 10-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend, then stabbing the child 60 times, including after she was already dead. A question on appeal was as to whether there was sufficient evidence for a reasonable jury to find the element of premeditation.
The court wrote:
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