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PEOPLE v. DAVIS

Docket No. Crim. 8061.

63 Cal.2d 648 (1965)

408 P.2d 129

47 Cal. Rptr. 801

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ARCHIE DAVIS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 7, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Gunning and Evans & Gunning for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk and Thomas C. Lynch, Attorneys General, Edward P. O'Brien and Robert R. Granucci, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

PEEK, J.

Defendant, following his conviction of murder in the second degree, appeals from the judgment on the grounds that the evidence is insufficient, that the homicide was justified and that the exclusion of testimony of specific acts of violence on the part of the deceased was prejudicial error.

[1a] The deceased, Norman Reed Morris, was the common-law husband of Mattie Gillen, defendant's mother-in-law. On December 8, 1962, a Saturday, following...

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