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PEOPLE v. DOYLE

Docket No. 3428.

162 Cal.App.2d 158 (1958)

328 P.2d 7

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. IRENE DOYLE, Appellant.

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

July 16, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Fahey, Jr. and Herbert Chamberlain for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Peter T. Kennedy, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

DOOLING, J.

Appellant was charged with the murder of her husband. The jury found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter. On the night of the killing appellant and her husband were visiting friends. The husband was drinking heavily and refused to go home. Appellant twice attempted to telephone for a taxi and her husband cursed and quarreled with her. Finally about 3 a.m. they did leave for home in a taxi. Appellant testified that both times that she had attempted to...

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