PEOPLE v. SPEAKS

Docket No. 6000.

156 Cal.App.2d 25 (1957)

319 P.2d 709

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. LYNN SPEAKS, Appellant.

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

December 11, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.P. Butcher for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, William E. James, Deputy Attorney General, Vern B. Thomas, District Attorney (Santa Barbara), and John G. Barnes, Jr., Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.


VALLÉE, J.

Defendant Lynn Speaks was accused by information of the crime of manslaughter in that on February 22, 1957, she unlawfully, without malice, killed Allen Buck.1 She was tried by the court sitting without a jury. On stipulation the cause was submitted on the evidence taken at the preliminary examination and that two police officers would testify that the deceased's reputation in Santa Barbara for violence and aggressiveness...

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