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PEOPLE v. SHERAN

Docket No. Crim. 6069.

49 Cal.2d 101 (1957)

315 P.2d 5

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. RODNEY G. SHERAN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 17, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, Victor Griffith, Deputy Attorney General, William O. Weissich, District Attorney (Marin), and Roger Garety, Assistant District Attorney for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Bagshaw, Schaal, Martinelli & Talley, Bagshaw, Schaal & Martinelli and Thomas E. Schaal for Defendant and Appellant.

CARTER, J.

Defendant, Rodney G. Sheran, was found guilty by a jury of the second degree murder of his wife, Esme.1 Defendant's motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence was denied by the trial court which, however, granted defendant's motion to modify the verdict by reducing the crime from second degree murder to manslaughter. The People appeal from the order reducing the class of the crime; defendant appeals from...

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