PEOPLE v. McCAUGHAN

Docket No. Crim. 6050.

49 Cal.2d 409 (1957)

317 P.2d 974

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. VELVA IRENE McCAUGHAN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 19, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sutter & Carter and Douglas M. Sutter for Appellant.

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


TRAYNOR, J.

A jury found defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter (Pen. Code, § 192, subd. 2), and the court denied her motion for a new trial. Judgment was suspended, and defendant was admitted to probation for a term of three years on the condition that she serve one year in a county detention facility. Defendant appeals.

Defendant was a psychiatric technician at the state hospital in Modesto in charge of a ward of 50 mental patients. One of the...

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