PEOPLE v. JONES

Docket No. 2602.

136 Cal.App.2d 175 (1955)

288 P.2d 544

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WILL JONES, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

October 13, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norris M. Goodwin and Albert M. King for Appellant.

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


VAN DYKE, P.J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment based upon a verdict by which a trial jury found him guilty of the charge of murder in the first degree with the penalty fixed at life imprisonment. On motion for new trial the court modified the verdict by reducing the degree to second. The People have not appealed.

Defendant-appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient to justify a conviction of second degree murder; that the court committed prejudicial...

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