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YOUNG v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. 19747.

190 Cal.App.2d 759 (1961)

12 Cal. Rptr. 331

JOYCE LORRAINE YOUNG, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY et al., Respondents.

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

April 3, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman W. Mintz, John A. Gunning, James Giller and David A. Himmelman for Petitioner.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Arlo E. Smith and Albert W. Harris, Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, J.R. Coakley, District Attorney, and Jerry G. Murphy, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondents.

BRAY, P.J.

Petition for writ of prohibition to compel the superior court to desist from further proceedings in a criminal case.

QUESTION PRESENTED

Has a husband physically injured by his wife a privilege to refuse to testify against the wife in a criminal action based on that injury?

RECORD

Defendant shot her husband, Jeremiah, inflicting two bullet wounds on his body. Thereafter she was charged with violation of section 217, Penal...

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