PEOPLE v. BUTLER

Docket No. 931.

118 Cal.App.2d 16 (1953)

257 P.2d 109

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WILLIAM ARLOW BUTLER, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

May 20, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jefferson & Jefferson, Martha Malone Jefferson and Bernard S. Jefferson for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


BARNARD, P.J.

The defendant was charged with arson and in another count with assault with intent to commit murder. A jury found him guilty of arson and, under the other count, guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. He has appealed from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The defendant had been having some trouble with his wife over a restraining order which had been issued in a divorce proceeding, to which they were parties...

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