PEOPLE v. WATERS

Docket No. 14190.

266 Cal.App.2d 116 (1968)

71 Cal. Rptr. 863

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN H. WATERS, Defendant and Appellant.

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

September 26, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Waters, in pro. per., and Stephen Warren Solomon, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, Philip M. Rosten and James H. Kline, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


JEFFERSON, J.

Defendant was tried by a jury and convicted of murder in the second degree. He appeals from the judgment.

A summary of the evidence is as follows: On November 15, 1966, defendant was drinking wine and vodka with some other men next to the railroad tracks. They were in an area used as a campground by itinerant workers and known as the Southern Pacific Jungles. At about 2:15 p.m. Officers Winniford and Sabiron talked to defendant when they came...

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