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PEOPLE v. McCARTNEY

Docket No. 8426.

222 Cal.App.2d 461 (1963)

35 Cal. Rptr. 256

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MARGARET LOUISE McCARTNEY, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

November 20, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Ruth Grant and Joseph W. Fairfield for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and H. Warren Siegel, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

JEFFERSON, J.

Defendant was convicted in a jury trial of murdering her son-in-law. The offense was fixed as murder in the second degree. The jury found that defendant was sane at the time of the commission of the crime. Motions for a new trial and to reduce the verdict to manslaughter were denied. She appeals from the judgment of conviction and from an order denying her motion for a new trial.

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