PEOPLE v. LUCAS

Docket No. 3404.

160 Cal.App.2d 305 (1958)

324 P.2d 933

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ROSE LUCAS, Appellant.

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

May 12, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Cohn and Lawrence Shostak for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, Raymond M. Momboisse, Deputy Attorney General, Thomas C. Lynch, District Attorney (San Francisco), and Jack Berman, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.


DRAPER, J.

Defendant was indicted for the murder of her husband. A jury found her guilty of manslaughter, and she appeals from judgment entered upon that verdict and from order denying new trial.

Defendant and decedent, a highway patrolman, had been married 23 years. Defendant testified that the marriage had been an unhappy one, that in the last five years decedent had been drinking heavily, and had choked her at least two or three times a month. They had...

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