PEOPLE v. WHITEHEAD

Docket No. 2342.

113 Cal.App.2d 43 (1952)

247 P.2d 717

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOHN WHITEHEAD, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

September 6, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David E. Peckinpah, Denver C. Peckinpah and Daniel L. Jensen for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Doris H. Maier, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


PEEK, J.

By an information defendant was charged with the crime of murder. He pleaded not guilty to the crime charged and the cause proceeded to trial before the jury. At the conclusion thereof he was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. He now appeals from the judgment of conviction and the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The facts, which are undisputed, show that on September 16, 1951, between 7:30 and 7:45 o'clock p.m. John Whitehead, the defendant...

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