PEOPLE v. WERNER

Docket No. 845.

111 Cal.App.2d 264 (1952)

244 P.2d 476

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. EDGAR ALVIN WERNER, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

May 22, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Sears for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Dan Kaufmann, Deputy Attorney General, C.M. Ozias, City Attorney (Fresno), and Richard L. Shepard, Assistant District Attorney, for Respondent.


BARNARD, P.J.

The defendant was charged with the murder of his wife on or about April 2, 1951. A jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree, fixing the punishment as life imprisonment, and he has appealed from the judgment.

The appellant and the deceased had been married for six years, but separated on February 8, 1951. He remained in their old apartment on College Street and she moved into a one-room apartment on Nevada Street, both in Fresno. During...

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