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PEOPLE v. STEPHANSON

Docket No. 12927.

259 Cal.App.2d 181 (1968)

66 Cal. Rptr. 155

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RONALD RAYMOND STEPHANSON, Defendant and Appellant.

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

February 20, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ansley Q. Hyman, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

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

FLEMING, J.

Stephanson was convicted of first degree murder and of two assaults with a deadly weapon with intent to murder. The conviction grew out of an early morning automobile foray into Watts by three men armed with a shotgun "to go get some niggers."

On appeal Stephanson contends (1) there was insufficient evidence of murder in the first degree, (2) the instructions on manslaughter did not adequately cover voluntary killing

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