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PEOPLE v. PATON

Docket No. 4332.

255 Cal.App.2d 347 (1967)

62 Cal. Rptr. 865

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BETTY JANE PATON, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

October 24, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jere E. Hurley, Jr., under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Raymond M. Momboisse and Marjory E. Winston Parker, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

VAN DYKE, J.*

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Shasta County. Appellant was charged with murder. After a jury trial, she was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Probation was denied and she was sentenced to prison.

Appellant was the common law wife of the deceased Robert "Rusty" Paton. The relations of the two for years had been stormy. On July 5, 1966, appellant and Paton had driven to Redding and...

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