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PEOPLE v. RIGNEY

Docket No. Crim. 6673.

55 Cal.2d 236 (1961)

359 P.2d 23

10 Cal. Rptr. 625

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. LOUIS FREDRICK RIGNEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 27, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Newberry & Prante and Stafford W. Prante for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Philip C. Griffin, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict convicting him of two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder.

Defendant, a hospital corpsman in the United States Navy, was married to Janet Rigney, one of the prosecuting witnesses. Janet secured an interlocutory decree of divorce in July 1958. The decree awarded her custody of their infant daughter and gave defendant...

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