PEOPLE v. MONCRIEF

Docket No. 3357.

155 Cal.App.2d 334 (1957)

317 P.2d 999

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. MARTIN MONCRIEF, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

November 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane H. Van Hook for Appellant.

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


DRAPER, J.

Defendant was tried on a charge of the murder of his wife. The jury found him guilty of the included offense of manslaughter, and he appeals from the judgment. Appellant argues only fact issues.

[1] There was evidence that on the day of the wife's death she and her husband had two fights involving the exchange of blows. On the second of these occasions, appellant pushed off one who attempted to intervene, resumed striking his wife,...

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