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PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

Docket No. 3264.

200 Cal.App.2d 838 (1962)

19 Cal. Rptr. 743

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ELWOOD J. WILLIAMS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

March 1, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Collard, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, and Raymond A. Momboisse, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

PIERCE, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment upon a jury's verdict which found him guilty of murder in the first degree. Punishment imposed by the same jury was life imprisonment.

Defendant admitted fatally shooting his estranged wife, but contended the act was neither premeditated nor committed with malice aforethought. He asserts it was the result of an emotional stress which he had been under for a considerable...

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