PEOPLE v. SONIER

Docket No. 2824.

113 Cal.App.2d 277 (1952)

248 P.2d 155

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

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

September 26, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry A. Francois and J. Maxwell Peyser for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and David K. Lener, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


DOOLING, J.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of a violation of Penal Code, section 245, assault with a deadly weapon. The defendant inflicted cuts on the complaining witness with a knife and at the trial relied upon self-defense as a justification. The evidence is in conflict as to which party was the aggressor but according to the evidence favorable to defendant the complaining witness attacked defendant with a metal...

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