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PEOPLE v. STEWARD

Docket No. 1324.

156 Cal.App.2d 177 (1957)

318 P.2d 806

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. AMELIA VERONICA STEWARD, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

December 16, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Sorbo, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Elizabeth Miller, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

WAITE, J. pro tem.*

Appellant was charged with murder, the information alleging that she did "wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously and with malice aforethought, kill and murder one Carol Steward, a human being." The victim was the appellant's daughter, and was 2 1/2 years of age at the time of her death. Pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity were entered, the latter plea being withdrawn before trial. A jury found appellant...

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