PEOPLE v. HILLMAN

Docket No. 5461.

140 Cal.App.2d 902 (1956)

295 P.2d 939

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WAYNE W. HILLMAN, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

April 19, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gallagher, Madden & Hart and Ward Sullivan for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and William M. Bennett, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


DORAN, J.

Defendant was charged with murder. Following a jury trial he was found guilty of murder in the first degree. The verdict provided for life imprisonment. Defendant appeals from the verdict, the sentence and judgment, and also from the order denying defendant's motion for a new trial.

[1a] It is contended by appellant that, "The court erred in excluding evidence: (a) That following his wife's attempt at suicide in 1952, appellant was solicitous...

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